BLUE-WINGED TEAL

 1374                     BLUE-WINGED TEAL                  Spatula discors

USA              24

The blue-winged teal (is a species of bird in the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. One of the smaller members of the dabbling duck group, it occurs in North America, where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to northern Texas. It winters along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and south into the Caribbean islands and Central America.

Blue-winged teal inhabit shoreline more often than open water and prefer calm water or sluggish currents to fast water. They inhabit inland marshes, lakes, ponds, pools, and shallow streams with dense emergent vegetation.  In coastal areas, breeding occurs in salt-marsh meadows with adjoining ponds or creeks. Blue-winged teal use rocks protruding above water, muskrat houses, trunks or limbs of fallen trees, bare stretches of shoreline, or mud flats for resting sites

GREY TEAL

Photographed at Miranda, June 2017

(*    469)                   GREY TEAL               Anas gracilis 

NEW ZEALAND                  45

Found in lowland lakes and lagoons, and estuaries. 43 cm. Found all over North Island and the eastern half of South Island.

BROWN TEAL

Photographed on Tiri Tiri Matangi, June 2017

1197                   BROWN TEAL                Anas chlorotis  

NEW ZEALND              34

A rare endemic, the 2000-2500 Brown Teal are mostly on Great Barrier Island, east Northland and Coromandel. 48 cm. Found in tidal creeks, lagoons and swamps, and adjacent pastures.

COMMON TEAL

Photographed at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

(* 939)               COMMON TEAL                         Anas crecca

                  

NEPAL               40

Found in all kinds of shallow wetlands. 34-38 cm. Common winter visitor and passage migrant.

COMMON (EURASIAN) TEAL

                 Photographed on Cocos Island, December 2016     

939         COMMON (EURASIAN) TEAL           Anas crecca

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Islands)            665

Found on lakes, large rivers, marshes and various wetlands. 34-38 cms. Breeds across northern Eurasia and mostly winters south of its breeding range

GREY TEAL

469           GREY TEAL            Anas gracilis 

Australia              (311)

Most widespread of Australian waterfowl, ranges across all of Australia. 40-46 cm. Found in almost any water, retreats to coastal wetlands in droughts.

CHESTNUT TEAL

167      CHESTNUT TEAL        Anas castanea

Australia        (167)

Range across se. Australia from Rockhampton to Eyre Peninsular, and sw. WA, all of Tasmania. Found in coastal swamps, inlets, wetlands, lakes. 40-48 cm.