Green-winged Teal
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Anas crecca
DESCRIPTION: Greenwing teal (Anas crecca) are the smallest of North American ducks with a short neck and small bill.
Green-winged teal Anas crecca
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Length: 10.5 inches Wingspan: 24 inches
Very small, short-necked, and small-billed dabbling duck
Green speculum
Whitish belly
Juvenile similar to adult female ...
Green-winged Teal
Relatives in same Genus
Northern Pintail (A. acuta)
American Wigeon (A. americana)
Northern Shoveler (A. clypeata)
Cinnamon Teal (A. cyanoptera)
Blue-winged Teal (A. discors)
Eurasian Wigeon (A. penelope)
Mallard (A.
Song: Green-winged Teal song
Migration: Summers throughout Canada, Alaska, and much of the northern and western United States. Winters in the southern half of the United States and points south. ...
Green-winged Teal
Anas crecca
The Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) breeds across the northern United States and Canada and winters across the southern United States and Mexico.
Green-winged Teal: Small dabbling duck with pale, gray-barred sides and buff breast with a bold white bar down the side. Head is chestnut-brown with green ear patch. Bill is dark gray and legs and feet are olive-gray to gray-brown.
Green-winged Teal Behaviour
No observations regarding Green-winged Teal behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Green-winged Teals ...
Diet The green-winged teal eats the seeds of pondweeds, bulrushes, sedges, grasses, grain and berries. It pokes its head down in the water to sift food from the mud and it pulls grasses and weeds up from the water's edge.
Green-winged Teal
(Anas crecca)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Possible but not likely
1992 to 1996: Possible but not likely ...
Green-winged Teal
Anas crecca Linnaeus
Status Common transient, fairly common in summer, rare in winter. Breeds.
Green-winged Teal
This small bird is common across North America. Its green wing patches are usually only visible when the bird is flying.
Birds at the Zoo ...
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, Anas Crecca, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. viii. p. 101.
ANAS CRECCA, Bonap. Syn., p. 386.
AMERICAN TEAL, Anas Creeca, var. Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 400.
ANAS CRECCA, Green-winged Teal, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii.p. 400.
The Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) is a small duck (10 - 16 inches; wingspan: 24 inches) overall grey with a cinnamon brown head and iridescent green patch through eye to back of head. It has a green speculum. The breast is buff and spotted.
Green-winged Teal ( A. carolinensis), drake in nuptial plumage (note vertical white stripe from shoulder) ...
Green-winged Teal
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Common Tern
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
The Green-winged Teal is North America's smallest dabbling duck, barely bigger than a Bufflehead. The Green-winged Teal drake is marked by rich hues of pine, chestnut, peach, and pewter.
hemlock 206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir 217 Aspen 235 Cottonwood - willow 252 Paper birch 253 Black spruce - white spruce 254 Black spruce - paper birch SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY PLANT COMMUNITIES : Green-winged teal are ...
1 Green-winged Teal
3 American Black Duck
450 Common Eider
2 Harlequin Duck
135 Black Scoter
280 Surf Scoter
31 White-winged Scoter
11 Laughing Gull
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
Erik Nielsen Westwood, MA 9/29/2001 Andrews Point - Rick Heil ...
It is similar and closely related to the Green-winged Teal Anas crecca, although slightly larger. The top of the head is dark brown to black, with buff and green patches on the face surrounded by white and black.
The North American race known as the green-winged teal, showing a conspicuous vertical white stripe on the side of the breast, has been identified in Norfolk on 24 occasions since first being recorded at Cley in 1964
By Michael J. Seago ...
Teal, European Teal, Eurasian Teal, Green-winged Teal (carolinensis), Aleutian Green-winged Teal (nimia), Greenland Green-winged Teal
Bird Family :
Anatini - Typical ducks ...
The male is a rich chestnut color, with a dark spatulate bill. The female is similar to a female Blue-winged Teal, but richer in color. Larger than a Green-winged teal, especially in the body.
A visit to the Chincoteague Fish and Wildlife Refuge, can reveal an array of waterfowl including pintail, gadwall, merganser, wigeon, mallards, green-winged teal, blue-winged teal, Canada and snow geese.
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)
Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw) (Clangula hyemalis)
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) ...
Photos include: Least Sandpipers, American Avocet, male Shoveler, male Green-Winged Teal, male Cinnamon Teal.
Walter Kitundu
Patch: Seven months in the life of an urban Red-Tailed Hawk ...
Described by: Gmelin (1789)
Alternate common name(s): Brown Pintail, Gerogian Teal, South American Green-winged Teal, South Georgia Pintail, Chilean Pintail, Nicefero's Pintail
Old scientific name(s): Dafila georgica ...
- Green-winged Teal, Anas carolinensis
- Grey Teals, Anas gracilis
- Marbled Teal, Marmaronetta angustirostris
- Ringed Teal,Callonetta leucophrys
- Silver Teal, Anas versicolor
- Sunda Teal, Anas gibberifrons ...
 See also: Teal, Duck, Mallard, Pintail, Merganser
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