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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 ...
A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were euthanized.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [ 4 ] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States , American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
The first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu was reported in poultry on a duck farm in California (AP) Authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm. Nearly 119,000 birds there had ...
Large flocks of northern shovelers, mallards, gadwalls, wigeons, green-winged teal, cinnamon teal, northern pintails, ring-billed ducks, canvasbacks, ruddy ducks, snow geese, Ross's geese, and greater white-fronted geese swarm over the mosaic of seasonal, and permanent wetlands that comprise a quarter of the refuge. Waterfowl generally remain ...