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Green-Winged Teal, Birding Center, Port Aransas, Texa
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. |
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GREEN-WINGED TEAL FACTS
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Description
The Green-winged Teal is a small duck with iridescent green patches on the wings, with white stripe on the shoulder in front of the wing. The male has a reddish head with broad green crescent shaped stripe on the face from the eye around the back of the head. The body is gray. The wings and tail are tan with a yellow stripe along the side of the tail. The bill is narrow and black. Female Green-winged Teals are tan brown with white chin and belly. Juveniles are similar to adults.
Other Names
Common Teal
Size
31cm - 39cm
Environment
shallow inland wetlands, ponds, coastal marshes. Prefers water with heavy vegetation and muddy bottom.
Food
plants, seeds, small invertebrates
Breeding
The Green-winged Teal nests on the ground under cover beside the water. The female lays five or six eggs which hatch after about 23 days.
Range
Green-winged Teals breed throughout most of Canada, Alaska, Maine, North Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Michigan. They winter in southern and western United States and Mexico.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Anseriformes | | Family: | Anatidae | | Genus: | Anas | | Species: | crecca | | Common Name: | 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. platyrhynchos)
Gadwall (A. strepera)
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