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The Eurasian teal, common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal (Anas crecca) is a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter. The Eurasian teal is often called simply the teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range. The bird gives its name to the blue-green colour teal.
Scientific Name : Anas Crecca
Family : Anatidae
Order : Anseriformes
Class : Aves
Type : Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl
Conservation Status : Least concern (LC)
Size : 34 – 43 cm
Compare Size : House crow +-
Wingspan : 53 - 59 cm
Weight : 360 - 340 g
Migratory : Migrant
Sex Alike : No
Nesting Season : May
Other Names :
English : Common Teal, Eurasian Green-Winged Teal, Green-Winged Teal
Hindi : छोटी मुरघबी
Marathi : चक्रांग बदक
Habitat:
sheltered freshwater wetlands with some tall vegetation
Breeding:
Eggs - 7 to 10, Cream coloured with a glossy texture.
Feeding:
In the breeding season it eats mainly aquatic invertebrates, such as crustaceans, insects and their larvae, molluscs and worms. In winter, it shifts to a largely granivorous diet, feeding on seeds of aquatic plants and grasses, including sedges and grains?
| Male | |
|---|---|
| Head | chestnut; iridescent dark-green wide patch of half-moon- or teardrop-shape that starts immediately before the eye and arcs to the nape. The patch is bordered with white line bellow the eye area and with yellowish-white line along the crown area this border line extends beyond the patch area to the base of bill with a curve |
| Neck | chestnut exect near the base; the base of neck has the pattern of the respective parts its flanked with e.g. breast, mantel |
| Breast | buff with small round brown spots |
| Belly | white in center |
| Scapulars | outer feathers are white, with a black border to the outer vanes, and form the white side-stripe when the bird is in resting position |
| Secondaries | speculum has two adjusent iridescent green and black bands both borderd with white on top and bottom; the border under green patch is comparatively thin |
| Tail | black with yellowish-buff triangular patch in the center of the coverts at each sid |
| Uppertail Converts | black with yellowish-buff patch |
| Undertail Coverts | black with yellowish-buff patch |
| Bill | black |
| Note : In Breeding plumage except head, neck and tail is mostly white with thin and dense blackish vermiculations, appearing medium grey even at a short distance; In Non-breeding plumage simillar to female but is more uniform in colour considering head and neck |
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| Female | |
|---|---|
| Head | paler than main body; thin straight dark stripe running from back of eye towards the nap |
| Neck | paler than rest of the body |
| Crown | slighlty darker than head |
| Bill | dark-grey |
| Belly | midbelly whitish with some dark streaking |
| Secondaries | speculum iridescent greenish-black borderd with white on top and bottom; the white border is much thick as compared to those in male |
| Note : overall brown due to each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown giving a scally appearance |
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| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2019 | Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan |
| 01 Feb 2019 | Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan |
