| Cinnamon Teal | |
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| Anas cyanoptera septentrionalium drake (male) | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Subfamily: | Anatinae |
| Genus: | Anas |
| Species: | A. cyanoptera |
| Binomial name | |
| Anas cyanoptera Vieillot, 1816 |
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4 living, 1 possibly extinct; see text This article needs inprovement |
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The Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) is a small, reddish dabbling duck found in marshes and ponds of western North and South America.
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 Blue-winged Teal; however its overall color is richer, the lore spot, eye line, and eye ring are less distinct. Its bill is longer and more spatulate. Male juvenile resembles a female Cinnamon or Blue-winged Teal but their eyes are red.[2][3] They are 16 inches (410 mm) long, have a 22-inch (560 mm) wingspan, and weigh 14 ounces (400 g).[3] They have 2 adult molts per year and a third molt in their first year.[3]
Their breeding habitat is marshes and ponds in western United States and extreme southwestern Canada, and are rare visitors to the east coast of the United States.[3] Cinnamon Teal generally select new mates each year. They are migratory and most winter in northern South America and the Caribbean,[4] generally not migrating as far as the Blue-winged Teal. Some winter in California and southwestern Arizona.[2] They are known to interbreed with Blue-winged Teals.[2] These birds feed by dabbling. They mainly eat plants; their diet may include molluscs and aquatic insects.
Subspecies are:
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