Blue-winged Teal (Large Ducks by AAA)

Despite sharing the common name ‘teal’, the Blue-winged Teal (BWTE, Spatula discors) is not in the same genus (Anas) as the Green-winged Teal (GWTE) from my earlier review, although it was for a period. The genus Spatula, originally described in 1822 and eventually placed in synonymy with Anas, was resurrected in 2009 after a molecular phylogeny looking at two mitochondrial genes (cytochrome […]

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Blue-Wing #Teal #Ducks feed by diving and nibbling along the bottom of the water for vegetation and small insects and mollusks.
In this #photograph, one teal has its head underwater, feeding. The other has just finished and is swimming on the water’s surface at the Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.

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Two Blue-Winged #Teals swimming on a pond in the #marsh of the #Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.
#BlueWingedTeals feed from the bottom of a shallow pond by putting their heads underwater to eat the seaweed and small crustaceans there.
A male and female pair are #swimming here.

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Two Blue-Winged #Teals, a species of #duck that feeds on vegetation and other matter at the shallow bottom of the #marsh ponds.
They dive their heads under the water, leaving their tails up high wile feeding.
These two #BlueWingedTeals are #feeding at #Merritt #Island National Wildlife Refuge.

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Two Blue-Winged #Teal #Ducks at #Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.
#BlueWingedTeals feed off vegetation and crustaceans on the bottom of shallow #ponds, dipping their heads straight underwater with their tails up in the air.
In this #Photograph, one duck seems to be looking directly at the #Photographer.
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Blue-winged teals (Spatula discors) at the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

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