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Teals Crossroads, Alabama
Teal is a blue-green color. Teal or TEAL may also refer to: Ducks * some members of the subfamily Anatinae (dabbling ducks): ** some members of the genus ''Anas'': *** Cape teal (''Anas capensis'') *** Red-billed teal or red-billed duck (''Anas erythrorhyncha'') *** Eurasian teal or common teal (''Anas crecca''), the original teal from which the color and other duck species are named *** Green-winged teal (''Anas carolinensis'' or ''Anas crecca carolinensis'') *** Yellow-billed teal or speckled teal (''Anas flavirostris'') *** Andean teal or speckled teal (''Anas andium'') *** Sunda teal or Indonesian teal (''Anas gibberifrons'') *** Andaman teal (''Anas albogularis'') *** Mascarene teal (''Anas theodori'') *** Grey teal (''Anas gracilis'') *** Chestnut teal (''Anas castanea'') *** Bernier's teal or Madagascar teal (''Anas bernieri'') *** Brown teal or New Zealand teal (''Anas chlorotis'') *** Auckland teal or Auckland Islands teal (''Anas aucklandica'') *** Campbell teal or Campb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teal
alt=American teal duck (male), Green-winged teal (male) Teal is a greenish-blue colour. Its name comes from that of a bird — the Eurasian teal (''Anas crecca'') — which presents a similarly coloured stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or grey. The complementary colour of teal is pink. It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987. In the RGB model used to create colours on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half. Teal was a fad colour during the 1990s, with, among others, many sports teams adopting the colour for their uniforms. Etymology The first recorded use of ''teal'' as a colour name in English was in 1917. The term ''teal'' (referring to a sort of duck) is derived from the Middle English ''tele'', a word akin to the Dutc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Teal
The Campbell teal or Campbell Island teal (''Anas nesiotis'') is a small, flightless, nocturnal species of dabbling duck of the genus ''Anas'' endemic to the Campbell Island group of New Zealand. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the brown teal. The plumage is similar to that of the Auckland teal, dark sepia with the head and back tinged with green iridescence, and a chestnut breast on the male, with the female dark brown all over. Its natural habitat is tussock grassland dominated by '' Poa'' tussock grass, ferns and megaherbs. The species also uses the burrows and pathways of petrel species that nest on the islands. They are apparently territorial in the wild, and probably feed on amphipods and insects. The IUCN classifies it as vulnerable. Conservation left The Campbell teal was once found on Campbell Island, but was driven to extinction there by the introduction of Norway Rats (which ate their eggs and chicks), and was for a while presumed extinct. In 1975 it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtiss Teal
The Curtiss Model 57 Teal was an American monoplane amphibian designed and built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Two versions were built, a three-seater and four-seater but only one of each was built. The Teal was a monoplane amphibian with the pusher engine pod-mounted above the wing center section. It was designed for the private user, but due to the economic pressures of 1930s America only one three-seater, Teal A-1 registered ''N969V'' and a four-seater Teal B-1 registered ''N970V'' were built. Variants ;Teal A-1 :Three-seater variant with a 165hp (123kW) Wright J6-5 piston engine. ;Teal B-1 :Four-seater variant with a 225hp (168kW) Wright J-6-7 piston engine. Specifications (Teal A-1) See also Citations Bibliography * * {{Curtiss aircraft Flying boats Teal alt=American teal duck (male), Green-winged teal (male) Teal is a greenish-blue colour. Its name comes from that of a bird — the Eurasian teal (''Anas crecca'') — which presents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvadori's Teal
Salvadori's teal (''Salvadorina waigiuensis'') or Salvadori's duck, is a species of bird endemic to New Guinea. It is placed in the monotypic genus ''Salvadorina''. It has a dark brown head and neck, and its body is barred and spotted dark brown and off white, with orange legs and a yellow bill. It is a secretive inhabitant of fast-flowing highland streams and lakes. It is an omnivore. It locates its nest near water, and lays 2 to 4 eggs in the dry season. The IUCN has listed the bird as least concern, and the total population may be slowly declining. Taxonomy When Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert first described Salvadori's teal in 1894, they placed it in the concurrently created monotypic genus ''Salvadorina''. It has no subspecies. Initially, it was generally placed with South America's torrent duck and New Zealand's blue duck — two species of similar ecological niches — in a tribe called Merganettini. In the 1940s, Ernst Mayr moved the species to the dabbling duc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Teal
The Brazilian teal or Brazilian duck (''Amazonetta brasiliensis'') is the only duck in the genus ''Amazonetta''. It is widely distributed in eastern South America. Taxonomy The Brazilian teal was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the other ducks, swans and geese in the genus ''Anas'' and coined the binomial name ''Anas brasiliensis''. Gmelin based his description on the ''Mareca alia species'' (the second Mareca) that was described in 1648 by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in his ''Historia Naturalis Brasiliae''. The Brazilian teal is now the only species placed in the genus ''Amazonetta'' that was introduced by the German zoologist Hans von Boetticher in 1929. It was formerly considered a ''perching duck'', but more recent analyses indicate that it belongs to a clade of South American dabbling ducks which also includes the crested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baikal Teal
The Baikal teal (''Sibirionetta formosa''), also called the bimaculate duck or squawk duck, is a dabbling duck that breeds in eastern Russia and winters in East Asia. Taxonomy The first formal description of the Baikal teal was by the German naturalist Johann Gottlieb Georgi in 1775 under the binomial name ''Anas formosa''. A molecular phylogentic study published in 2009 found that the genus ''Anas'' as then defined was non-monophyletic. Based on this analysis the genus was split into four proposed genera with the Baikal teal placed in the resurrected genus ''Sibirionetta'' that had been introduced by the German zoologist Hans von Boetticher in 1929. The name ''Sibirionetta'' is derived from the Latin ''sibiricus'' for Siberia and the Ancient Greek ''nētta'' for a duck. The specific epithet ''formosa'' is from the Latin ''formosus'' for "beautiful". Description At between , this duck is slightly larger and longer-tailed than the common teal. The breeding male is unmistak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falcated Duck
The falcated duck or falcated teal (''Mareca falcata'') is a gadwall-sized dabbling duck from the east Palearctic (East Siberia and Mongolia to North Japan; wintering to India). Taxonomy The closest relative of this species is the gadwall, followed by the wigeons. The species was assigned to the proposed genus ''Mareca'' after its previous placement in the genus ''Anas'' was found to be paraphyletic in 2009. There are many species that have mitochondrial DNA lineages that are phylogenetically intermixed with other species, but studies have rarely tested the cause of such paraphyly. In a study that was conducted, there were tested two hypotheses that could explain mitochondrial paraphyly of Holarctic gadwalls (''Anas strepera'') with respect to Asian falcated ducks (''A. falcata''). First, hybridization could have resulted in falcated duck mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) introgressing into the gadwall gene pool. Second, gadwalls and falcated ducks could have diverged so recently that mt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue-winged Teal
The blue-winged teal (''Spatula discors'') is a species of bird in the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. One of the smaller members of the dabbling duck group, it occurs in North America, where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to northern Texas. It winters along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and south into the Caribbean islands and Central America. Taxonomy The first formal description of the blue-winged teal was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his '' Systema Naturae''. He coined the binomial name ''Anas discors''. A molecular phylogentic study comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2009 found that the genus ''Anas'', as then defined, was non-monophyletic. The genus was subsequently split into four monophyletic genera with ten species including the blue-winged teal moved into the resurrected genus ''Spatula''. This genus had been originally proposed by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinnamon Teal
The cinnamon teal (''Spatula cyanoptera'') is a species of duck found in western North and South America. It is a small dabbling duck, with bright reddish plumage on the male and duller brown plumage on the female. It lives in marshes and ponds, and feeds mostly on plants. Description The adult male has a cinnamon-red head and body with a brown back, a red eye and a dark bill. The adult female has a mottled brown body, a pale brown head, brown eyes and a grey bill and is very similar in appearance to a female blue-winged teal; however, its overall color is richer, the lores, eye line, and eye ring are less distinct. Its bill is longer and more spatulate. Male juvenile resembles a female cinnamon or blue-winged teal but their eyes are red.Dunn, J (2006) They are long, have a wingspan, and weigh .Floyd T (2008) They have 2 adult molts per year and a third molt in their first year. Distribution Their breeding habitat is marshes and ponds in western United States and extreme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Teal
The silver teal or versicolor teal (''Spatula versicolor'') is a species of dabbling duck in the genus ''Spatula''. It breeds in South America. Between April and June they prefer reed beds and will lay 6 to 10 creamy-pink eggs. As with swans and geese, both parents will rear the ducklings. A pair may bond long term. It lives on fresh water in small groups, and feeds primarily on vegetable matter such as seeds and aquatic plants. The silver teal's range includes southern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, and the Falkland Islands.Clements, J. (2007) The southernmost birds migrate to southern Brazil in the winter. Silver teals are on the whole placid ducks but may be protective of eggs, young and females. Description They have a black cap that extends below the eyes, and a bluish bill with a yellow tip. They also have a green speculum with a white border. The Puna teal was previously regarded as a subspecies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puna Teal
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.Clements, J. (2007) 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. Taxonomy The first formal description of the Puna teal was by the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi in 1844 under the binomial name ''Anas puna''. It was at one time considered as a subspecies of the silver teal in the genus ''Anas''. A molecular phylogentic study comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2009 found that the genus ''Anas'', as then defined, was non-monophyletic. The genus was subsequently split into four monophyletic genera with ten species including the Puna teal moved into the resurrected genus ''Spatula''. This genus had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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