Anas crecca

Green-winged Teal

Flickr photo 'at the flats...' by: TurasPhoto.

Flickr photo 'Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) and Blue-winged Teal' by: Mary Keim.

Flickr photo 'On the Tail of Green-winged Teal' by: Phil's 1stPix.

Flickr photo 'Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) facing left with Blue-winged Teal facing right' by: Mary Keim.

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Species group: Birds

Found in: Salish Sea-reliant birds, Salish Sea-reliant birds, Terrestrial vertebrates: birds

Data Sources

Classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Craniata

Class:

Aves

Order:

Anseriformes

Family:

Anatidae

Genus:

Anas

Encyclopedia of Life

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http://eol.org/pages/31429292/details

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Source:
ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.104242

Classification

Other Global Common Names:

Cerceta Ala Verde - sarcelle d'hiver

Synonyms:

Taxonomy:

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

Short General Description:

Description:

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

Habitat Type Description:

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.

Phenologies:

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.

Ecology Comments:

Length:

Unit of Length:

Weight:

364

Unit of Weight:

grams

Conservation Status

NatureServe 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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Anas crecca

Green-winged Teal

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Green-winged Teal

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