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Green-winged teal

Anas carolinensis

Photo by Brian38
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

This is the smallest North American dabbling duck. The breeding male has grey flanks and back, with a yellow rear end and a white-edged green speculum, obvious in flight or at rest. It has a chestnut head with a green eye patch. It is distinguished from drake common teals (the Eurasian relative of this bird) by a vertical white stripe on side of breast, the lack of both a horizontal white scapular stripe and the lack of thin buff lines on its head.-Wikipedia.

Habitat:

Spotted at the
Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.

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