Male:
- Grey body with black vermiculations
- Chestnut head and neck
- Dark green patch before eye to hindneck
- Black and white horizontal striped flanks crecca
- Vertical white stripe on carolinensis
- Buff, brown spotted breast
- White belly
- Black tail
- Yellow sides to undertail
- Dark grey bill and feet
- Brown iris
Female
- Brown body with dark streaks and mottling
- Dark greyish-brown head, neck and eyestripe
- Pink based bill, grey towards tip
- Greyish-olive feet
- Brown iris
The Eurasian
teal or common teal (Anas crecca) is a common and widespread duck which breeds
in temperate Eurasia and migrates south in winter.
The Eurasian
teal is often called simply the teal due to being the only one of these small
dabbling ducks in much of its range
The Eurasian
teal belongs to the "true" teals, a group of small Anas dabbling
ducks closely related to the mallard (A. platyrhynchos) and its relatives; that
latter group in fact seems to have evolved from a true teal.
1st
January 2016
Rani Lake,
Idar, Banashkanth, Gujarat, India
Nikon D7100
AF-S Nikkor
300mm F/4D IF-ED + AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E
