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The green-winged teal (Anas carolinensis) or American teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in the northern areas of North America except on the Aleutian Islands. It was considered conspecific with the Eurasian teal ( A. crecca ) for some time, but the two have since been split into separate species.
Cinnamon teal generally select new mates each year. They are migratory and most winter in northern South America and the Caribbean, [5] generally not migrating as far as the blue-winged teal. Some winter in California and southwestern Arizona. [2] Two subspecies of cinnamon teal reside within the Andes of South America.
The blue-winged teal is primarily found in the northern prairies and parklands. It is the most abundant duck in the mixed-grass prairies of the Dakotas and the prairie provinces of Canada. The blue-winged teal is also found in wetlands of boreal forest associations, shortgrass prairies, tallgrass prairies, and deciduous woodlands. [13]
Blue-winged teal - - U U Cinnamon teal: C U U F Northern shoveler: U - U F Northern pintail: U - U F Green-winged teal: U - F C Canvasback: U - F C Ring-necked duck: U - U C Greater scaup: R - R U Lesser scaup: U - U F Surf scoter: C U C C White-winged scoter: U - U U Bufflehead - - U C Common goldeneye - - U F Hooded merganser - - U F Common ...
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The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
The Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter. [2] The Eurasian teal is often called simply the teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range. [ 3 ]
A falcated duck, a rare vagrant from Asia, that arrived at California's Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in December 2011. The falcated duck has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000–10,000,000 km 2 (390,000–3,860,000 sq mi). [8]