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Long-tailed weasels often consume blue-wing teal eggs. Females are preyed on by raptors when they are on their nests. In prairies, these ducks are captured by red foxes. Females and ducklings are cryptically colored to avoid detection by prey.
- What does Blue wing teal eat?
- Are blue-winged teals rare?
- Do blue wing teals mate for life?
- What sound does a blue-winged teal male?
- Where do teals nest?
- Where are blue-winged teals found?
- Do teals migrate at night?
- What does a green winged teal eat?
- How do I know if I have blue wing teal?
- How long do teal ducks live?
- Do teals migrate early?
- What kind of duck has blue on their wings?
- What does the teal bird look like?
What does Blue wing teal eat?
Mainly seeds. Diet is mostly plant material, especially seeds of various grasses, sedges, pondweeds, smartweeds, and others. Snails, bivalves, insects, crustaceans, and other animal matter may be important in the diet at some seasons.
Are blue-winged teals rare?
Blue-winged teal are rare in the desert southwest, and the west coast. ... The blue-winged teal winters from southern California to western and southern Texas, the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic Coast, the Caribbean, and south to Central and South America. It is often seen wintering as far south as Brazil and central Chile.
Do blue wing teals mate for life?
Blue-winged teal are seasonally monogamous. Pairs usually form on wintering grounds and during spring migration. Most female are paired when they arrive on breeding grounds. Blue-winged teal breed once yearly.
What sound does a blue-winged teal male?
Male's call is a loud, high whistle or a nasal bleat. Female gives loud, evenly spaced quacks.
Where do teals nest?
Nests in small numbers around the country, particularly in the uplands, but much more common in winter when it can be found on most wetlands.
Where are blue-winged teals found?
Although some spend winter along coastal areas of the southern U.S., most migrate to Mexico or South America. Blue-winged teal are found in all four flyways, but they are most abundant in the Central and Mississippi flyways.
Do teals migrate at night?
Reproduction: Nests in California only in small numbers. ... Pattern: Prefers to nest in lush, grassy fields near shallow-water feeding areas. SPECIES LIFE HISTORY Activity Patterns: Active yearlong; diurnal, except migrates mostly at night.
What does a green winged teal eat?
Feeds especially on seeds of grasses, sedges, pondweeds, many others. Also takes aquatic insects, crustaceans, mollusks, tadpoles; rarely earthworms, fish eggs. May feed more on animal matter in summer, seeds in winter.
How do I know if I have blue wing teal?
Description. Male blue-winged teal have a slate gray head and neck, a black-edged white crescent in front of the eyes and a blackish crown. The breast and sides are tan with dark brown speckles and there is a white spot on the side of the rump.
How long do teal ducks live?
Blue-winged teal that do survive to adulthood can live up to 17 years.
Do teals migrate early?
They not only migrate earlier than other waterfowl species-including the more cold-tolerant green-winged teal-they also journey faster and farther from their breeding grounds. ... In early fall, hot, dry weather can limit the habitat available for migrating teal, other waterfowl, and shorebirds.
What kind of duck has blue on their wings?
Blue-Winged Ducks of the World Seven "blue-winged ducks" occur worldwide, with at least one on every continent except Antarctica. This group includes three small-bodied teal (blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal and garganey) and four shovelers (northern shoveler, cape shoveler, red shoveler and Australasian shoveler).
What does the teal bird look like?
Breeding males are brown-bodied with dark speckling on the breast, slaty-blue head with a white crescent behind the bill, and a small white flank patch in front of their black rear. Females and eclipse males are a cold, patterned brown. In flight, they reveal a bold powder-blue patch on their upperwing coverts.
