I was running with a friend down on the Bayfront Trail when I saw a different type of duck! I usually only see mallards, but now I have noticed the northern shoveler down on the water. I was excited, and I looked the duck up as soon as I got home. The northern shoveler has a different bill than other ducks that live in Canada. It is very wide and fairly flat. They find food much the same way as flamingoes, using tiny sieve-like parts of their bills to skim tiny crustaceans and plankton off the surface of the water. The female has dappled brown plumage, but in the breeding season the male has a beautiful green head, and black bill.
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