Afghanistan (NB), Albania (B) (NB), Algeria (NB), Anguilla (NB), Antigua And Barbuda (NB), Armenia (B) (NB), Austria (B) (NB) (P), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh (NB), Barbados (NB), Belarus (B) (NB), Belgium (B) (NB) (P), Belize (NB), Benin (NB), Bermuda, Bhutan (NB), Bosnia and Herzegovina (NB), Bulgaria (B) (NB), Cambodia (NB), Cameroon (NB), Canada (B) (NB) (P), Cayman Islands, Central African Republic (NB), Chad (NB), China (mainland) (NB), Colombia (NB), Costa Rica (NB), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Cuba (NB), Cyprus (NB) (P), Czech Republic (B) (NB) (P), Denmark (B) (NB) (P), Dominica (NB), Dominican Republic (NB), Egypt (NB), El Salvador (NB), Eritrea (NB), Estonia (B) (NB) (P), Ethiopia (NB), Faroe Islands (B), Finland (B) (NB) (P), France (B) (NB) (P), Gambia (NB), Georgia (B) (NB), Germany (B) (NB) (P), Ghana (NB), Greece (B) (NB) (P), Greenland (B), Guadeloupe (NB), Guatemala (NB), Guinea-bissau, Haiti (NB), Honduras (NB), Hong Kong (China), Hungary (B) (NB) (P), Iceland (B) (NB), India (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (NB) (P), Iraq (NB) (P), Ireland (B) (NB), Israel, Italy (B) (NB), Jamaica, Japan (NB), Jordan (NB) (P), Kazakhstan (B), Kenya (NB), Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos (NB), Latvia (B) (NB), Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (NB), Liechtenstein (NB), Lithuania (B) (NB), Luxembourg (B) (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Malaysia (NB), Maldives, Mali (NB), Malta (NB), Martinique (NB), Mauritania (NB), Mexico (NB), Moldova [Republic of] (B) (NB) (P), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B) (NB), Montserrat (NB), Morocco (NB), Myanmar (NB), Nepal (NB), Netherlands (B) (NB), Niger (NB), Nigeria (NB), North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway (B) (NB) (P), Oman, Pakistan (NB), Philippines (NB), Poland (B) (NB) (P), Portugal (NB), Puerto Rico (NB), Qatar, Romania (B) (NB) (P), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (P), Russia (European) (B) (NB) (P), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal (NB), Serbia (B) (NB), Singapore (NB), Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B) (NB) (P), Slovenia (B) (NB), Somalia (NB), South Korea (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Sri Lanka (NB), St Kitts And Nevis (NB), St Lucia (NB), St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines (NB), Sudan (NB), Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (B), Sweden (B) (NB) (P), Switzerland (B) (NB), Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan (China) (NB), Tajikistan, Tanzania [United Republic of] (NB), Thailand (NB), Trinidad and Tobago (NB), Tunisia (NB), Turkey (B) (NB), Turkmenistan, Uganda (NB), Ukraine (B) (NB) (P), United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom (B) (NB), USA (B) (NB), Uzbekistan (B), Vietnam (NB), Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB), Western Sahara, Yemen.
Vagrant to Guinea, Seychelles.
Population
Estimated population is 5,900,000 - 6,900,000 (2010).
Status LC
Lowland habitat loss and degradation and upland habitat loss due to afforestation and other land-use changes, pollution, hunting in its wintering areas, and susceptibility to avian botulism and influenza are the main threats.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Food
Seeds and small invertebrates.
Voice
A distinctive, high-pitched, far-carrying, chirping 'prip-prip' or 'krick'.
Eurasian Teal (Anas crecca) [XC861015]
by Paul Kelly from Tacumshin Lake (East End), County Wexford, Ireland (call)
Eurasian Teal (Anas crecca) [XC855766]
by Sven Normant from Tierra de Campos (near Villaf\u00e1fila), Zamora, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Spain (call)
Nest
On the ground, among heather, gorse, bracken or in marshes.
Eggs (Guide)
Usually 8 - 10; pale buff, often with a green tinge; ellipsoidal. Incubation: 21 - 22 days; by male.
Subspecies
Although Anas crecca was split by Sangster et al. (2001) into Common Teal (Anas crecca) and Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis) and this treatment was followed in BirdLife International (2004), AOU (1998) do not adopt this treatment and this source is now followed here.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
crecca Linnaeus, 1758 - Most of northern and central Palearctic.
nimia Friedmann, 1948 - Aleutian Islands.
carolinensis Gmelin, 1789 - Widespread. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis).
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
BirdLife International Species Factsheet