Blue-winged Teal Images

Blue-winged Teal Images, Facts and Information:

Spatula discors

• Blue-winged Teals are small dabbling ducks. Male Blue-winged Teals have purplish gray heads with a distinct white crescent on their faces. Upperparts are scaled buff and dark brown, underparts are pale brown with dark spots, wings have a blue shoulder patch and a green speculum. Females show white at the base of their bills, no purple hues on their heads and they have scaled underparts.
• Blue-winged Teals are migratory. They breed in northern prairies of central North America and spend winters from Central America south to Brazil and Peru. They also overwinter in the Caribbean. Their preferred habitat include wetlands, marshes, ponds and lakes.
• Blue-winged Teals eat plant matter, especially seeds.
• Blue-winged Teals lay 6 to 15 eggs which hatch in 18 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• a group of teals can be called a “knob”, “coil” “paddling” or a “spring” of teal.
• Blue-winged Teals can live of be more than 23 years old.

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