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 LC    Blue-winged Teal* Id (Atlas):
    Spatula discors

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Blue-winged Teal, Bluewing

Family
Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

Size
36 - 41 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay.

North America, from southern Alaska to Newfoundland, and south to central USA.
 
Population
Estimated population is 4,600,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Male, chirping and peeping notes uttered in flight. Female, a light quack.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (30)...)

 
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) [XC302953]
     by Frank Lambert from Cranberry Marsh, Valemount, British Columbia, Canada (call)

 
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula) [XC295589]
     by Frank Lambert from Lostwood NWR, Burke County, North Dakota, United States (call, flight call)

Subspecies
Eastern population has been assigned separate subspecies, orphna, but doubtfully valid.

No subspecies.


References
See References.

The Reader's Digest Book of British Birds 1980, 3rd Edition, Drive Publications Ltd ISBN 0 340 25308 8
Birds in Colour Campbell, B., 1960, Penguin Books Ltd
The Pocket Guide to Nest and Eggs Fitter, R.S.R., 1954, Collins
RSPB Handbook of British Birds Holden, P., Cleeves, T., 2002, A & C Black ISBN 0 7136 5713 8
Birds of Britain and Europe Sterry, P., et al., 2001, AA Publishing ISBN 0 7495 3068 5
The Popular Handbook of British Birds Hollom, P.A.D., 1973, H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd ISBN 0 85493 002 7


Files:
JPG files for Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) - 10 files


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