#0858 · 🐦 birds

Blue-winged Teal

🇳🇱 Blauwvleugeltaling ·Spatula discors

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 70,031iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).