GALLERIES > BIRDS > ANSERIFORMES > ANATIDAE > CINNAMON TEAL [Anas cyanoptera]    [plot on map]
  
 
 
   
  
    Location:  Los Angeles River (Willow St), CAGPS: 33.8N, -118.2W, elev=7' MAP  Date:  November  14, 2016  ID :  B13K2274 [4896 x 3264]
   
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    Location:  Ballona Freshwater Marsh, CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=5' MAP  Date:  January  29, 2019  ID :  B13K8021 [4896 x 3264]
   
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    Location:  Morro Bay, CAGPS: 35.3N, -120.9W, elev=0' MAP  Date:  March  9, 2008  ID :  5582 [3888 x 2592]
   
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    Location:  Newport Back Bay, CAGPS: 33.6N, -117.9W, elev=4' MAP  Date:  February  2, 2008  ID :  3001 [3888 x 2592]
   
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    Location:  Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CAGPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP  Date:  September  16, 2013  ID :  B13K4520 [4896 x 3264]
   
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 SPECIES INFO 
 
The Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera, is a small dabbling duck from the Americas.
  
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.
  
Their breeding habitat is marshes and ponds in western North and South America. Cinnamon Teal generally select new mates each year. They are migratory and most winter in northern South America and the Caribbean, generally not migrating as far as the Blue-winged Teal. These birds feed by dabbling. They mainly eat plants; their diet may include molluscs and aquatic insects.
  
Subspecies are:
  
 Anas cyanoptera septentrionalium - Northern Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera tropica - Tropical Cinnamon Teal 
Anas cyanoptera borreroi - Borrero's Cinnamon Teal (possibly extinct) 
Anas cyanoptera orinomus - Andean Cinnamon Teal 
Anas cyanoptera cyanoptera - Argentine Cinnamon Teal
  
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