The blue-winged teal has a large white crescent in front of its each eye.

Blue-winged teal are rare in the desert southwest, and the west coast.

Male juvenile resembles a female cinnamon or blue-winged teal but their eyes are red.

But late-nesting birds such as blue-winged teal may fare better, he said.

Blue-winged teal are sexually mature after their first winter.

The breeding habitat of the blue-winged teal is marshes and ponds.

Blue-winged teal are generally the first ducks south in the fall and the last ones north in the spring.

Hunters in the United States seldom get a chance to hunt blue-winged teal.

Blue-winged teals and northern shovelers can be seen in spring and summer.

Blue-winged teal often use heavy growth of bulrushes and cattails as escape cover.

The blue-winged teal is primarily found in the northern prairies and parklands.

Reeling in more line, he stepped off into water thigh deep, flushing a blue-winged teal out of its cover.

They are known to interbreed with blue-winged teals, which are very close relatives.

During one study, about half of the nest failures of blue-winged teal were caused by mammals.

It is entitled "Morning Stretch" and depicts a blue-winged teal pair.

In the blue-winged teal, "rape attempts by paired males may occur at any time during the breeding season."

Blue-winged Teal To view annual indices of population change please click on a geographic area.

Spring foods of migrating blue-winged teals on seasonally flooded impoundments.

Blue-winged Teal, like other teal are the half-pints of the duck world.

Blue-winged teal ducklings can walk to water within 12 hours after hatching but do not fledge until 6 to 7 weeks.

He dismissed the blue-winged teal and cinnamon teal as "niche ducks."

I was jumping mallards, wood ducks and blue-winged teal from the shoreline bulrushes.

It seems certain, however, that further reductions in seasons and bag limits for ducks other than blue-winged teal will be called for.

The blue-winged teal rarely dives underwater to find food, instead, it skims the surface of the water.

This protects all wild bird species from hunting, collection or egg taking, with the exception of the migrant blue-winged teal.

In contrast, survey results suggest a declining breeding population of Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) since 1990.

Common Bird names beginning with T Teal, Blue-winged (Anas discors)

Blue-winged teal (Anas discors)

This study examined foraging strategies in male Northern Shovelers (Anas clypeata) and Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors).

BLUE-WINGED TEAL Anas discors.

During the breeding season, Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) undergo cyclic changes in body mass (Mb) and pectoral- and leg-muscle mass coincident with the simultaneous molt of all flight feathers.