Puna teal
Puna teal | |
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A puna teal at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Genus: | Spatula |
Species: | S. puna
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Binomial name | |
Spatula puna (Tschudi, 1844)
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Synonyms | |
Anas versicolor puna |
The Puna teal (Spatula puna) is a species of
The Puna teal is resident in the Andes of Peru, western Bolivia, northern Chile, and extreme northwestern Argentina.[1][2] It is found on the larger lakes and pools in the altiplano.
The status of the Puna teal is
Taxonomy
The first
Description
The Puna teal is 19 inches (480 mm) long, similar in size to a wood duck. They have a black cap that extends to below the eyes. Their lower face and neck are creamy white. Their upper tail coverts are gray, and their rear flanks are dark brown with thin stripes. Back, chest and lower flanks are light coffee with dark brown spots. Their bill is large, light blue with a black line down the middle.
Behaviour
In the wild they live in small groups of their own kind or with the closely related silver teal. Puna teal lay their eggs between April and June. Like
References
- ^ . Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Clements, J. (2007)
- ^ Tschudi, Johann Jakob von (1844). "Avium conspectus". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 10 Part 1: 262–317 [315–316].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 475.
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- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Screamers, ducks, geese & swans". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ Boie, Friedrich (1822). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). 1822. Col 564.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 460.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ "Puna teal". Aves de Chile. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009.
Sources
- Clements, James (2007). The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.