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The Grey Teal Duck (45 cm) is found across Australia, it travels long distances to water and has a varied diet. Chestnut Teals (48 cm) are dabbling ducks, up-ending to feed on vegetation and molluscs.
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Male is very distinctively marked with a metallic green head, and rich chestnut flanks, but the female is a plain gray duck with a rounded crown. Female distinguished from Gray Teal by slightly darker neck/throat. White wing panels are distinctive in flight compared to purple/green of Pacific Black Duck.
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The Grey Teal is a small to medium-sized dabbling duck that is native to Australia, New Zealand, and parts of the Pacific Islands. It belongs to the family Anatidae and is known for its distinctive coloration and behavior.
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The Chestnut Teal, a species of dabbling duck, is a small yet striking member of the Anatidae family, which encompasses the familiar ducks, the stately geese, and the regal swans. Let us take a closer look at the male Chestnut Teal, a vision of avian elegance. With a head that shines like a polished emerald, this duck boasts a stunning contrast.
117. Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) commonly distributed in southeastern and southwestern
The grey teal is one of the most numerous ducks in Australia, and is one of the most common birds shot there in the hunting season, particularly in inland areas, but in New Zealand its hunting is prohibited. The New Zealand population was estimated at 20,000 birds in 1976, and had increased to an estimated 50,000 birds by 2005, with the main.
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Teals are small dabbling ducks. Males have chestnut coloured heads with broad green eye-patches, a spotted chest, grey lower sides and a black edged yellow tail. Females are mottled brown. Both show bright green wing patches (speculum) in flight. They are thinly distributed as a breeding species with a preference for northern moors and mires.
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Description. Male and female Grey Teal are alike with the female slightly smaller and sometime with an eye slightly duller than the bright crimson eye of the male. The body colour is a uniform grey-brown and lighter edges to the feathers give them a scalloped appearance. The head is grey-brown. The cheeks and neck are whitish and this is the.
Chestnut Teal The Australian Museum
The Grey Teal Duck is found in open wetlands in Australia and also in New Zealand. They have a crimson coloured iris, well, that's if you can get close enough to see it. It is known as a "dabbling duck" as it feeds on the surface as opposed to diving for its food. Colouring is a mottled browny colour with white and green on the wings.
Australian Ducks Australia's Wonderful Birds
The chestnut teal is a small Australian duck that's often seen in New Zealand. It is sexually dimorphic, with breeding males having comparable plumage to male brown teal, and females trying very like gray teal. Most New Zealand sightings have been at coastal wetlands, significantly Manawatu Estuary.
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Grey Teal, scientific name Anas gracilis is a dabbling duck present in open wetlands in Australia and New Zealand. Grey Teal may be recognized as a result of the presence of a crimson-colored iris in its eyes. Grey Teal Profile The eggs of Grey Teal are a creamy white color and usually are not distinctly speckled.
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The Chestnut Teal is found on wetlands and estuaries in coastal regions, and is one of the few ducks able to tolerate high salinity waters, although it still needs fresh water for drinking.
Profile of a beautiful Aussie duck the Chestnut Teal YouTube
The grey teal ( Anas gracilis) is a dabbling duck found in open wetlands in Australia and New Zealand. Description It can be identified due to the presence of a crimson coloured iris in its eyes. [2] This crimson colour is relatively more prominent in adult males. [3] It is a mottled brown duck with white and green flashes on its wings.
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Everything to Know About the Teal Duck
The chestnut teal ( Anas castanea) is a dabbling duck found in Australia. It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. [clarification needed] Taxonomy The chestnut teal was described by the English naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton in 1838 under the binomial name Mareca castanea. [2]
Chestnut Teal • One of the prettier ducks in Australia, jan_wegener_• Bird photography
Grey Teal are among the most common waterbirds found throughout Australia, from the salt and brackish waters of coastal estuaries, to rivers, lakes and even isolated dams in the outback.
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Usually an uncommon duck, the Blue-winged Shoveler is distributed throughout south-eastern and south-western Australia, preferring inland cumbungi swamps and coastal tea-tree swamps. Blue-winged Shovelers are seldom heard but do have a soft chatter when flying.
Ducks at the Australian Reptile Park Trevor's Birding
More striking are the bold black-and-white stripes which dominate the ducks' neck, breast and underparts, giving rise to its vernacular name of Zebra Duck or Zebra Teal. Pink-eared Ducks have odd-shaped bills, evolved to feed in a specialised manner: water is sucked through the bill-tip, then expelled through grooves along the side of the bill, filtering out tiny invertebrates in the process.