Cinnamon Teal Images

Cinnamon Teal Images, Facts and Information:

Spatula cyanoptera

• Cinnamon Teals are small dabbling ducks, males in breeding plumage are a deep reddish-brown and have red eyes, the females are a plainer, warm brown.
• Cinnamon Teals are common in the western U.S. and southwestern Canada and considered rare in the eastern U.S. Cinnamon Teals also have a breeding population in South America.
• Both males and female Cinnamon Teals have light blue patches on front of wing which are visible in flight.
• Cinnamon Teal feed on aquatic vegetation, seeds, insects (both aquatic and semi-terrestrial), snail and plankton.
• Cinnamon Teal have separate breeding populations in North and South America making it the only duck species in the world to have that distinction.
• A group of Cinnamon Teal is known as a “seasoning”.
• They lay 9 to 12 eggs and the incubation period is 21 to 25 days. They are monogamous.
• Cinnamon Teals can live to be more than 10 years of age.

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