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Cinnamon Teal

Anas cryptoleucus

Length: 16 in. (41 cm )

This attractive duck prefers small ponds and lakes with emergent aquatic vegetation where it feeds by tipping up its rear end and stretching its bill down into the water as far as it can. It eats plants, seeds, insects and snails. The nest is a depression in dense low vegetation near water. Other ducks such as Redheads often place their eggs in the nest of the Cinnamon Teal to be raised by the adoptive parents.

The four-digit banding code is CITE.

Female | Robert Shantz

Male | CJ Kazilek

Marsh / swamp

Open water

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Bird Sound Type: Quacking
Sex of Bird: Male

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Article: Cinnamon Teal
Author(s): Dr. Biology
Publisher: Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Ask A Biologist
Site name: ASU - Ask A Biologist
Date published: July 13, 2017
Date accessed: October 15, 2019
Link: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal

APA Style

Dr. Biology. (2017, July 13). Cinnamon Teal. ASU - Ask A Biologist. Retrieved October 15, 2019 from https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal

American Psychological Association. For more info, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

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Dr. Biology. "Cinnamon Teal". ASU - Ask A Biologist. 13 July, 2017. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal

For more info, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/04/

MLA 2017 Style

Dr. Biology. "Cinnamon Teal". ASU - Ask A Biologist. 13 Jul 2017. ASU - Ask A Biologist, Web. 15 Oct 2019. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal

Modern Language Association, 7th Ed. For more info, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

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