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Blue-winged Teal
Pato Zarcel
Spatula discors
The blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) is a species of bird in the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. One of the smaller members of the dabbling duck group, it occurs in North America, where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to northern Texas. It winters along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and south into the Caribbean islands and Central America.
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Sound recorded by Christiana Fattorelli · XC992380 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Visualization by Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden.
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About the Blue-winged Teal
This atlas includes Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) with atlas status “Native / natural occurrence” within scope “Avibase inferred core 380.” Global trait data associate it primarily with wetland; consult the linked records to resolve its Puerto Rico habitat use.
Conservation
Least Concern
IUCN LC
- Global IUCN
- LC
- Puerto Rico DNER
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Federal ESA
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Critical habitat
- Not identified in source crosswalk
Natural history
How it lives
- Habitat
- wetlands
- Elevation
- 0–3600 m
- Nest
- Scrape · Ground
- Clutch
- 6–15 eggs
- Social behavior
- Social / flocking
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