Can I Find a Blue-winged Teal While Birding at a Local Wetlands?
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- In this video I head out to a Wetland area to search for a duck that has been evading me this year, the Blue-winged Teal.
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Thumbnail silhouette: Blue-winged Teal by Frank Schulenberg - CC BY-SA 4.0
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Birding/Filming Date:
June 29, 2024 Животные
In Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR, near and around where I live in the sub-rural countryside, we have the Lesser Egret, Greater Egrets , and Cattle Egrets.
We also get the Great Egret and the Western Cattle Egret!
Great video Hawkin! I particularly enjoyed the footage of the Eared Grebe! Beautiful bird when it's in full breeding plumage!
It was random to come across one!
Actually it appears that the duck family (female with young) from 1:37-2:02 are in fact blue-winged teal. Dark bill, light area at the base of the bill, darker cap and eyeline. So I believe you got your teal!
I thought so at first too. But I believe a lot of the local Mallards are hybrid thus the darker bill. I also saw an adult male mallard in the video that had a darker head as if it was covered in something.
It certainly may be possible to be a teal but I still lean towards mallard
Agree with @kylegage87. Mallard has a sloping forehead head-shape above the bill, whereas B-w Teal has a more rounded crown above the bill, and the bill is black & slightly spatulate, also yours (in the 1st group of ducks seen) shows the typical white spot at the lower bill base of a female B-w Teal. The other group of ducks, a female & 5 ducklings, are Mallards.
Agreed as well.
The duck family is indeed Blue-winged Teal.
The only Mallard is the single bird you show later in the video.
Saw a Blue-winged Teal in the Netherlands last Sunday 😊
Haha wish I was you right now!
I was lucky to see some blue-winged teals one time.
Jealous still need to get those on my life list
Unfortunately, Hong Kong 🇭🇰 does not have any duck 🦆, nor goose 🪿, unless you visit a bird sanctuary, then there would be lots of birds to see .
Really interesting. That's surprising at ducks are everywhere here
I checked GOOGLE and the Blue-winged Teal seems to belong to the Mallard, duck 🦆, goose 🪿 family, right ?
Yeah I believe they do. Very similar species although smaller than a Mallard