Puna teal

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Puna teal
A puna teal at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Spatula
Species:
S. puna
Binomial name
Spatula puna
(Tschudi, 1844)
Synonyms

Anas versicolor puna
Anas puna
Punanetta puna

The Puna teal (Spatula puna) is a species of

dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. It was at one time regarded as a subspecies of the silver teal
.

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

Least Concern, as listed on the IUCN Red List.[1]

Taxonomy

The first

Spatula.[6] This genus had been originally proposed by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822.[7][8] The name Spatula is the Latin for a "spoon" or "spatula". The specific epithet puna is from the Puna de Atacama, a plateau in the Andes.[9]

Description

At WWT Slimbridge, England

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

MHNT

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

geese both parents rear the ducklings. They lay their eggs in long grass, not always close to the water. The eggs are a creamy pink colour of which there may be several. The relationship between the male and female may be long term.[10]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680326A92855733.en
    . Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. ^ Clements, J. (2007)
  3. ^ Tschudi, Johann Jakob von (1844). "Avium conspectus". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 10 Part 1: 262–317 [315–316].
  4. ^ 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.
  5. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00622.x
    .
  6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Screamers, ducks, geese & swans". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  7. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1822). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). 1822. Col 564.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  10. ^ "Puna teal". Aves de Chile. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009.

Sources

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