Although not specific for Bustillos, about 10,000 Northern
Shovelers spend the winter in lagoons in the state of Chihuahua (Bellrose, 1976) and of the 10,500 White-fronted Geese that winter in Mexico, 6000 do so in interior lagoons and reservoirs (Bellrose, 1967).
Our data indicate that mallards, although appropriate focal species for AIV monitoring in some portions of North America, are not as suitable as blue-winged teal or northern
shoveler in other regions, such as the Texas mid-Coast (8,9,13).
All-mallard stools are as common as multibillion dollar governmental bailouts; a couple gadwall,
shovelers, teal, ringnecks, blacks or widgeon help set your spread apart from all the others, and being different can play a major role in your success or lack thereof.
A mob of gads or greenies or northern
shovelers would swoop in and pink- (your faithful author) and yellow- (Rick) and red-fletched (Dave) flu-flu arrows would buzz through their midst, or at first well behind them.
HUMMINGBIRD CARDINAL
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Scientists consider many species among these to be threatened or in need of special protection, including: Peregrine Falcon, Red-tailed Hawk, Least Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Northern Pintail, Blue-Winged Teal, Northern
Shoveler, American Widgeon, Northern Harrier, Harris' Hawk, Short-eared Owl, Cinnamon Teal, Redhead Duck, Least Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpipe and Wilson's Phalarope.
Hopes that the Wetland Centre will assume a countrywide importance as a bird sanctuary have also been blessed with nationally important numbers of
Shoveler, Gadwall, Pochard and Tufted Ducks.
Blue Raja Hank Azaria Bowler Janeane Garofalo
Shoveler William H.
Author Lester DeCoster describes himself as having been "a farmer, forester, bureaucrat, logger, contract manure
shoveler, Tree Farm poobah, and communications counselor, working from Bailey's Mistake, Maine, to Islamabad, Pakistan.
Major species were the blue-winged teal (57 percent), mallard (19 percent), gadwall (11 percent), northern pintail (6 percent), and northern
shoveler (6 percent).
Researchers have indicated that the average weight of a shovel loaded with heavy, wet snow is about 16 pounds, and the average
shoveler ends up moving 192 pounds of snow at about 12 times a minute, which is almost 2,000 pounds being lifted in just over 10 minutes
The restoration work will also benefit EU priority habitats, such as calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus (7210*), and Annex II-listed Habitats Directive species such as otter as well as water fowl including wigeon, gadwall and
shoveler.
