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).
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) [XC302953]
by Frank Lambert from Cranberry Marsh, Valemount, British Columbia, Canada (call)
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula) [XC461521]
by Andrew Spencer from Peacocks Pocket Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, United States (flight call)
Subspecies
Eastern population has been assigned separate subspecies, orphna, but doubtfully valid.
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BirdLife International Species Factsheet