Cinnamon Teals
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The Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera, is a small dabbling duck.
Description:
The adult male has a cinnamon-red head and body with a brown back, a red eye and a dark bill. The adult female has a mottled brown body, a pale brown head, brown eyes and a grey bill and is very similar in appearance to a female Green-winged Teal.
Breeding / Distribution:
Their breeding habitat is marshes and ponds in western North and South America. Cinnamon Teal generally select new mates each year.
They are migratory and most winter in Central and South America, generally not migrating as far as the Blue-winged Teal.
Diet / Food:
These birds feed by dabbling. They mainly eat plants; their diet may include molluscs and aquatic insects.
Feeding Ducks ...
We all enjoy ducks and many of us offer them food to encourage them to come over and stay around - and it works! Who doesn't like an easy meal!
However, the foods that we traditionally feed them at local ponds are utterly unsuitable for them and are likely to cause health problems down the road. Also, there may be local laws against feeding this species of bird - so it's best to check on that rather than facing consequences at a later stage.
- Click here to find out which foods to feed them that will offer the nutrition they need to survive a cold winter and remain healthy
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