Teal (Anas crecca)
The Teal is found in North America (subspecies Anas crecca carolinensis) and Europe, Asia and Africa (A. c. crecca). It is partly migratory but in most of Europe it is resident all year.
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My earliest diaries record watching teal in the Yare Valley at Postwick. The dykes, often spilling over the marsh all winter, regularly attracted flights of 50 or more of these smallest of ducks.
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Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see duck.
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Duck - common name for wild and domestic waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and swans. It is hunted and bred for its meat, eggs, and feathers.
Cape Teal {Anas capensis}
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Cape Teal
Scientific name: Anas capensis
Family: Anatidae
Order: Anseriformes
Class: Aves ...
Common Teal
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The teal eats seeds, roots, grasses and other aquatic plants, as well as snails, insects and crustaceans. It normally prefers to eat close to shore, often under plant cover to ensure its safety.
Cape teal are one of the few species of dabbling ducks that actually dive. They are capable of swimming underwater with their wings closed like other true diving ducks. Normally, dabbling ducks dive with their wings open.
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Brown teal tend to flock at traditional roosting sites when not feeding although, during the breeding season, these flocks are mainly juveniles and non-paired adults.
Silver Teal
Anas versicolor fretensis
Local Name: Pampa Teal
Breeding Range: Falkland Islands, Chile and Argentina
Length: 45cm
Falklands Population: ~1,000 breeding pairs
World Population: unknown ...
Baikal Teal: Small dabbling duck with striking head pattern of pale brown, green, white, and black. Breast is pink with dark spots, flanks are gray bordered with vertical white stripes, and long scapulars are chestnut-brown, black, and white.
Baikal Teal Behaviour
No observations regarding Baikal Teal behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
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Baikal Teal Anas formosa - Male in breeding plumage
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Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera
The Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) breeds across much of the western United States and winters across much of Texas and Mexico.
Garganey teal drakes have a head with a blackish-brown top portion, a white blaze extending from above the eye to the back of the neck and brownish red on the rest of the head except for a black chin.
Cinnamon Teal, Birding Center, Port Aransas, Texas
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
CINNAMON TEAL FACTS ...
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.
Cinnamon Teal Photos
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The Baikal teal is protected by national legislation in Russia, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and some provinces in mainland China.
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 ...
Hottentot Teal
Anas hottentota
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The most striking feature of the Hottentot teal is its blue bill. It is the smallest of the African ducks and one the smallest of all the waterfowl, weighing a mere 8 or 9 ounces.
Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)
No photo of the Blue-winged Teal available.
Blue-winged teal have thrived in recent years with wet conditions on the prairies of the Midwest and Canada. In 1999, Minnesota hunters harvested more than 59,000 blue-winged teal.
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BLUE-WINGED TEAL, Anas discors, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. viii. p. 74.
ANAS DISCORS, Bonap. Syn., p. 385.
ANAS DISCORS, Blue-winged Teal, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii.p. 444.
BLUE-WINGED TEAL, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 397.
Green-winged Teal
This small bird is common across North America. Its green wing patches are usually only visible when the bird is flying.
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Blue-winged Teal
Anas discors Linnaeus
Status Common transient, fairly common in summer. Breeds. Widespread in freshwater marshes and ponds, less so in salt marshes.
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.
Baikal Teal
Description
Distinguishing Features - Male: the breeding plumage of the adult male is unmistakable and very ornamental. It is similar and closely related to the Green-winged Teal Anas crecca, although slightly larger.
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.
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.
Redheads often parasitize; Mallards and Ruddy Ducks also parasitize, occ remove teal eggs. Clutches >11 may be result of parasitization. Pair bond maintained throughout most of incubation.
Teal, Baikal Anas formosa Found: Asia
Photographed by Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights
Teal, Bernier's aka Madagascar Teal Anas bernieri Endemic to Madagascar
Photographed by Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights ...
Teal
Teals are small dabbling ducks. Males have chestnut coloured heads with broad green eye-patches, a spotted chest, grey flanks and a black edged yellow tail. Females are mottled brown. Both show bright... More...
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Grey Teal, Anas gracilis
Hottentot Teal, Anas hottentota
Marbled Teal, Marmaronetta angustirostris ...
Teal, J.& M. The Sargasso Sea. Boston, MA. Little, Brown. c.1975.
Valentine, P.C. The shelf-slope transition-canyon and upper slope sedimentary processes on the southern margin of Georges Bank. Washington, DC. U.S. Geological Survey. c.1987.
Cinnamon Teal x Common or Green-winged Teal (c) Jörn Lehmhus
HOW ABOUT THOSE GREEN-WINGED TEALS?
Blue-winged Teal breed widely across the southern Canadian provinces and the north/central U.S. (Prairie Pothole Region), then migrate south and reach well down into South America.
Blue-winged Teal
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Green-winged Teal
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The Blue-winged Teal occurs throughout most of inland United States during the breeding season. The species winters in most coastal areas of the United States, in California on the west coast, and from Virginia south on the eastern coast.
Ring-necked pheasants sometimes lay eggs in nests of other birds such as gray partridge (Perdix perdix), ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), and blue-winged teal (Anas discors).
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.
The wetlands associated with the Indus river and its tributaries are the stronghold for two species of migratory duck in the Asia region, White-headed Duck and Marbled Teal.
Endemic to Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Island chain, survival of this nocturnal, teal-sized duck once rested on a single surviving female. From that precarious position, the species has slowly increased but remains highly vulnerable.
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 ...
Hens may also lay eggs in nests of other ground nesting birds such as mallards, blue-winged teal, gray partridge, bobwhite, turkey, ruffed and blue grouse. Incubation, usually by the female, lasts twenty three to twenty five days.
Usually you can divide ducks into three groups; The surface breeding ducks such as the Mallard , wood duck, black duck, and teal which frequented ponds, marshes and and other quiet waters .
Lesser Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna javanica), also called Lesser Whistling Teal, is a local breeding summer visitor. This bird is found in small flocks in the wetlands of India.
Size: 40 cm ...
Ducks vary in their migratory distances. Among American ducks,
the blue-winged teal travels the farthest, nesting in North America
and wintering as far south as Argentina.
From the shore of the lake, he pointed out Silvery Grebes, Andean Teal, Andean Ducks, Yellow-billed Pintail, and Andean Coots. The placid lake was smooth as a mirror. On the shore, we spied a flock of 17 Black-faced Ibis.
Black Tern abundance was positively correlated to hectares of open water and to hectares of dead cattails. Abundance also was positively related to the number of Mallards, Blue-winged Teal, Redheads, and Yellow-headed Blackbirds.
They were stunning creatures. I used to keep many different species of tarantulas and found these to be the most beautiful with the possible exception of a pink-toe that had teal hairs.D.I.Allison 2006-07-27 ...
Females in a subspecies of Pacific parrotlets dark teal or turquoise rumps, backs, eye streaks and sometimes wings. The males of this subspecies have bright, wide eye streaks and their wings and backs are silver gray.
On Rennell Island, the Rennell Island Teal became extinct after introduced Oreochromis mossambicus multiplied in the absence of predators (the local population did not fancy the fish); ...
In many places, particularly Florida and Australia, feral populations of Tilapia spp. have had detrimental effects on ecosystems. On Rennell Island (Solomon Islands), the Rennell Island Teal became extinct after introduced Oreochromis mossambicus ...
 See also: Duck, Mallard, Green-winged Teal, Pintail, Purple
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