
Northern Shovelers recorded
per party hr on the Honolulu Christmas Count,O'ahu,1944-2014 (see Count
Page). The drop in numbers since1960 reflects,
among other things, the loss of wetland habitat in se. O'ahu, in particular, the draining of Kaelepulu Pond in
1954. See also Northern Pintail. Graphs of Christmas Count data developed as part
of The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and
Status by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/birds/rlp-monograph/