Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera)
Chilean name: Pato colorado
The Cinnamon Teal breeds in west central North America from British Colombia to north-west Mexico, ...
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Cinnamon teal Anas cyanoptera
Identification Tips:
Length: 11 inches Wingspan: 25 inches
Small dabbling duck
Long bill is somewhat spatulate at tip
Juvenile similar to adult female
Pale blue upper secondary coverts ...
Cinnamon Teal
Scientific name: Anas cyanoptera
Family: Anatidae
Order: Anseriformes
Class: Aves ...
Cinnamon Teal
Relatives in same Genus
Northern Pintail (A. acuta)
American Wigeon (A. americana)
Northern Shoveler (A. clypeata)
Green-winged Teal (A. crecca)
Blue-winged Teal (A. discors)
Eurasian Wigeon (A. penelope)
Mallard (A.
Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera
Presumed Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) X Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) hybrid. This male hybrid teal was photographed 20 February 2001 at the Port Aransas Birding Center boardwalk, Nueces Co., Texas.
Cinnamon Teal: Small dabbling duck with scaled, dark brown upperparts and cinnaon-brown underparts, head, and neck. Eyes are red and bill is relatively long and dark. Green speculum and pale blue shoulder patch on wing are separated by white line.
Cinnamon Teal Behaviour
No observations regarding Cinnamon Teal behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Cinnamon Teals ...
The Cinnamon Teal is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order. The majority of these are waterfowl such as ducks, geese, screamers and swans.
Diet The cinnamon teal is a dabbling duck. It usually feeds in shallow water where it scoops up floating plants, seeds and even insects. It will also dive for food and eat aquatic invertebrates.
Cinnamon Teal
(Anas cyanoptera)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 1998
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera
© Peter LaTourrette, from the Birds of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Last updated 3/2/96 Cinnamon Teal are western birds that just make it to the UTC.
The cinnamon teal feeds by dabbling from the water surface. Dipping its head, it upends its body. At night, it looks for acorns in the woods and grains and seeds by roadways.
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2. Cinnamon Teal pair
3. Pintail male and Cinnamon Teal male
4. Male Shoveler takes off, note wing patches ...
Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera. Accidental.
Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata. Occasional breeder. Common in winter, spring, and fall in all regions, and occasional in summer in Tennessee Valley region.
Cinnamon Teal x Common or Green-winged Teal (c) Jörn Lehmhus
HOW ABOUT THOSE GREEN-WINGED TEALS?
The Cinnamon Teal is not resident in Cuba, but may be seen occasionally.
orphna Stewart and Aldrich (Atlantic blue-winged teal) The blue-winged teal hybridizes with the cinnamon teal (A. cyanoptera) [21].
The most similar species is the Cinnamon Teal. Females of the Blue-winged Teal and Cinnamon Teal are indistinguishable.
Blue-winged teal and cinnamon teal look nearly identical in the fall. However, as spring approaches, the two species acquire distinctly different breeding plumage (feathers).
DNR is an equal opportunity employer ...
- Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera
- Common Teal, Anas crecca
- Green-winged Teal, Anas carolinensis
- Grey Teals, Anas gracilis
- Marbled Teal, Marmaronetta angustirostris
- Ringed Teal,Callonetta leucophrys ...
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Brown teal (Anas chlorotis)
Cinnamon teal (Anas cyanoptera)
Yellow-billed pintail (Anas georgica)
Red shoveler (Anas platalea)
Chiloe wigeon (Anas sibilatrix)
Blue-winged teal (Anas discors) ...
represent half of all Redhead eggs in a given area, and can seriously damage the breeding success of the host. Redheads often parasitize Canvasback nests, but also lay eggs in the nests of Gadwalls, Northern Pintails, American Wigeons, Cinnamon Teal, ...
 See also: Teal, Duck, Wigeon, Gadwall, Green-winged Teal
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