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The blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) is a species of bird in the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae.One of the smaller members of the dabbling duck group, it occurs in North America, where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to northern Texas. [2]
Spatula is a genus or subgenus of ducks in the family Anatidae that includes the shovelers, ... Blue-winged teal Male Female Spatula discors (Linnaeus, 1766)
The speculum feathers are bright blue with white edges. The speculum is a patch, often distinctly coloured, on the secondary wing feathers, or remiges, of some birds. Examples of the colour(s) of the speculum in a number of ducks are: Common teal and green-winged teal: Iridescent green edged with buff. [1] Blue-winged teal: Iridescent green. [2]
A male blue-winged teal; this migrant from the north is the commonest duck in Panama. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae. Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to ...
Among North America's duck species, northern shovelers trail only mallards and blue-winged teal in overall abundance. Their populations have been healthy since the 1960s, and have soared in recent years to more than 5 million birds (2015), most likely because of favorable breeding, migration, and wintering habitat conditions.
The blue-billed teal, spotted teal or Hottentot teal (Spatula hottentota) is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Spatula. It is migratory resident in eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria and south to South Africa and Namibia. [1] [2] In west Africa and Madagascar it is sedentary.
Wood duck, Aix sponsa (O) Blue-winged teal, Spatula discors (U) Cinnamon teal, Spatula cyanoptera (U) Northern shoveler, Spatula clypeata (U) Gadwall, Mareca strepera; Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope (O) American wigeon, Mareca americana; Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos; Northern pintail, Anas acuta (U) Green-winged teal, Anas crecca; Canvasback ...
Cairina and Asarcornis, Muscovy duck and white-winged duck, respectively (2 species) – traditionally dabbling ducks, but may be paraphyletic, with one species in Tadorninae and the other closer to diving ducks; Aix, Mandarin duck and wood duck (2 species) – dabbling ducks or Tadorninae? Callonetta, ringed teal – dabbling ducks or Tadorninae?