Anatidae
NORTHERN SHOVELER

Location : Perak 

Date : ‎19 ‎December 2022

43–52 cm Male: Huge bill, dark glossy green head, white underparts with chestnut sides; largely blue upperwing-coverts, bold white underwing-coverts.Male eclipse: Flanks/belly more rufous than female, body markings blacker, upperwing-coverts bluer. Female: Huge orange-edged bill; crown and eyestripe not sharply contrasting; bluish-grey on upperwing-coverts. Juvenile male: As juvenile female but upperwing similar to adult. Immatures can resemble sub-eclipse adults. Juvenile female: Darker crown than female, paler and more spotted below, faint greater covert bar, glossless secondaries. VOICE Hollow liquid sluk-uk or g’dunk from courting males; descending gakgak-gak-ga-ga from females. HABITAT Lakes, large rivers, marshes; up to 800 m. RANGE Un WVMyanmar (except W), Thailand (except SE,S), E Tonkin. V Pen Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, C Annam, Cochinchina