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Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Red Shoveler
Spatula platalea
Order:
Anseriformes
Family:
Anatidae
Monotypic
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Red Shoveler
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Recommended Citation
Red Shoveler
(
Spatula platalea
), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online:
https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/redsho1