Species: Anas crecca

Green-winged Teal

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Salish Sea-reliant birds

Terrestrial vertebrates: birds

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See Jackson (1991) for information on identification of North American teal.

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Anseriformes

Family

Anatidae

Genus

Anas

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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Cerceta Ala Verde - sarcelle d'hiver

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Waterfowl

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae - Anas - are separate species, and the British Ornithological Union (2001) subsequently recognized them as such.

Ecology and Life History

See Jackson (1991) for information on identification of North American teal.

Migration

false - false - true - Begins slowly migrating northward in March-April; arrives in Beaufort Sea area late May-early June. Generally departs from northernmost breeding areas August-September. Usually migrates southward in large flocks with first cold fall weather. Rare in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, October-April (Raffaele 1983).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Eats aquatic plants; seeds of sedges, smartweeds, pondweeds, and grasses; aquatic insects, mollusks, crustaceans and tadpoles. In fall waste grain. Also eats berries, grapes, acorns. Dabbles in shallow water, also forages on land.

Reproduction Comments

Clutch size is 7-15 (usually 8-9). Incubation, by female, lasts 21-23 days. Males abandon females early in incubation. Nestlings are precocial, tended by female, become independent in about 23 days.

Length

Weight

364

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-11-21

Global Status Last Changed

1996-11-21

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Holarctic. BREEDS: north-central Alaska, northwestern and central Canada south to California, northern New Mexico, northern Nebraska, Minnesota, northern Ohio, western New York, Maine, Nova Scotia; Iceland, northern Eurasia, Aleutians south to southern Spain, northern Italy, southern Russia and northwestern China. WINTERS: in North America, mostly in the U.S., regularly to central Mexico and Antilles; also Hawaii; widely in Old World. In the U.S., the highest winter densities occur in western Texas, northern Utah, Kansas, Mississippi-Arkansas, and southeastern North Carolina; except for the latter, these are associated with national wildlife refuges (Root 1988).

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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