Green-winged Teal Images

Green-winged Teal Images, Facts and Information:

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• Green-winged Teals are North America’s smallest dabbling ducks. Males have chestnut-brown heads with green ear patches, buff breasts, barred sides, bright green speculums, and dark gray bills. Females are mottled brown with dark brown eyelines and their speculums have a smaller area of green than males do. Juveniles are similar to females but they have spots on their bellies. Eclipse males resemble females.
• Green-winged Teals are migratory. Preferred habitats include marshes, ponds, flooded fields, and marshy lakes.
• Green-winged Teals breed from arctic areas of Alaska and Canada south to Colorado, Nebraska and New York. They spend winter in southern states along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and Mexico.
• Green-winged Teals eat grasses, aquatic vegetation, aquatic insects and larvae, mollusks and crustaceans.
• Green-winged Teals lay 6 to 18 eggs which hatch in 20 to 24 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of teal can be called a “spring”, “knob”, “paddling”, and “coil” of teal.
• Green-winged Teals can live to be more than 20 years of age.

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