Yellow-billed Teal

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When to see the Yellow-billed Teal

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-billed Teal

The map shades 9 countries with regular records, and 8 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 France, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain.

About the Yellow-billed Teal

The yellow-billed teal is a South American species of duck. Like other teals, it belongs to the diverse genus Anas; more precisely it is one of the "true" teals of subgenus Nettion. It occurs in Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Brazil. It has also established itself in South Georgia, where it was first recorded breeding in 1971, and has been recorded as far east as Tristan da Cunha. It inhabits freshwater wetlands, preferring palustrine habitat to rivers. Considering its wide range and local abundance, it is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-billed PintailAnas georgicaThe yellow-billed pintail has a brown head and neck. Eastern Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhynchaThis duck is around the same size as a mallard and has a scaly patterned body with a blue speculum. Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulataThese are mallard-sized mainly grey ducks with a darker head and bright yellow bill.

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