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Blue-winged Teal -
(Anas discors) 

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Identification

  • Small duck, swift flyer
  • Male brown speckled body with
         white patch near tail; grey head with
        
    white crescent with striking white
         crescent between eye and bill
  • Female mottled brown, dark bill
  • Both sexes have blue forewing patch
  • Mature and nonbreeding males -
        
    brownish, dull colored
  • 15.5 inches (39 cm)

Habitat

  • Lakes, ponds, wetlands

Additional Information

  • Common migrant
  • Uncommon summer resident in most of
          Driftless Area
  • Often rests or preens on logs near water
  • Females make nest in open upland vegetation
  • Winters farther south than most other ducks -
         from the Gulf Coast to northern
         South America

A pari of Blue-winged Teals

Blue-winged teal showing colors on wing

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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