Place: Main Lake, Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey, Hampshire
Date: 11 March 2023.
Place: Marloes Mere, Pembrokeshire
Date: 29 April 2024.
Place: 30 Acre Hide, Westhay Moor, Somerset Levels
Date: 12 April 2025.
Place: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumbria
Date: 12 September 2025.
Place: Nostell Priory, Nostell, West Yorkshire
Date: 14 October 2025.
[Spatula clypeata, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Northern shoveler]
The sound of the shoveler (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Paul Driver)
Distribution and sightings of the shoveler across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

















