Cinnamon Teal
Anas cryptoleucus
Duck Like
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 |
Male |
Marsh / swamp
Open water
Bibliographic details:
- 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: 13 Jul, 2017
- Date accessed:
- Link: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal
APA Style
Dr. Biology. (Thu, 07/13/2017 - 15:36). Cinnamon Teal. ASU - Ask A Biologist. Retrieved from https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal
Chicago Manual of Style
Dr. Biology. "Cinnamon Teal". ASU - Ask A Biologist. 13 Jul 2017. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal
MLA 2017 Style
Dr. Biology. "Cinnamon Teal". ASU - Ask A Biologist. 13 Jul 2017. ASU - Ask A Biologist, Web. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/bird/cinnamon-teal
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