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Anas crecca (Green-winged Teal; Eurasian Teal)

Synonyms: Anas circia; Nettion crecca; Nettium crecca; Querquedula crecca
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

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 bird gives its name to the blue-green colour teal.
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Infraspecies

Anas crecca carolinensis (American green-winged teal) (Attributes)
Anas crecca crecca (European green-winged teal)
Anas crecca nimia (Aleutian green-winged teal) (Attributes)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.06489
EDGE Score: 1.40239
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  9
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [6]  39 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  4,800,000
Incubation [4]  22 days
Mating Display [8]  Ground display (mostly)
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  27 years
Snout to Vent Length [6]  15 inches (39 cm)
Speed [9]  44.068 MPH (19.7 m/s)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds
Wing Span [9]  23 inches (.59 m)
Adult Weight [2]  368 grams
Birth Weight [4]  15 grams
Female Weight [6]  324 grams
Male Weight [6]  359 grams
Weight Dimorphism [6]  10.8 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Boreal forests, Arctic tundra, Prairie wetlands
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [3]  Wetlands, Agricultural
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  30 %
Diet - Plants [5]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [5]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  6 months
Male Maturity [4]  6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Predators

Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[10]
Aquila clanga (Greater Spotted Eagle)[11]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[10]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[10]
Lynx pardinus (Iberian Lynx)[12]

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Cryptocotyle jejuna[10]
Deropristis inflata[10]
Himasthla continua[10]
Levinseniella brachysoma[10]
Psilostomum brevicolle[10]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 9Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 11WINTER DIET OF THE GREATER SPOTTED EAGLE (AQUILA CLANGA) IN THE AMVRAKIKOS WETLANDS, GREECE, HARALAMBOS ALIVIZATOS, DIMITRIS PAPANDROPOULOS, STAMATIS ZOGARIS, J Raptor Res. 38(4):371-374
♦ 12Feeding Ecology of the Spanish Lynx in the Coto Doñana, Miguel Delibes, ACTA THERIOLOGICA Vol. 25, 24: 309-324, 1980
♦ 13Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0