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WetlandScrapeLarge · 377 g
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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. They are 16 in (41 cm) long, have a 22-inch (560 mm) wingspan, and weigh 14 oz (400 g).
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When to see the Cinnamon Teal
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Cinnamon Teal
The map shades 23 countries with regular records, and 15 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Spain, Brazil, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Honduras, Finland, Netherlands, Jamaica, St. Martin, Denmark, Portugal.
About the Cinnamon Teal
The cinnamon teal 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.
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Easily confused with
GarganeySpatula querquedulaThe adult male is unmistakable, with its brown head and breast with a broad white crescent over the eye.
Australasian ShovelerSpatula rhynchotisThe Australasian shoveler is a species of dabbling duck in the genus Spatula.
Cape ShovelerSpatula smithiiThe Cape shoveler or Cape shoveller is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Spatula.
Side by side: Cinnamon Teal vs Northern Shoveler · Blue-winged Teal vs Cinnamon Teal · Cinnamon Teal vs Garganey
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