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blue-winged teal

[ bloo-wingd ]

noun

  1. a small duck, Anas discors, inhabiting ponds and rivers of North America, having a dull-brown mottled body and grayish-blue patches on the wings.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of blue-winged teal1

First recorded in 1630–40
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High virus levels in birds like blue-winged teal, ducks that migrate long distances, helped spread the virus to new parts of South America, Stallknecht said.

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By mid-January, the virus had infected an American wigeon and blue-winged teal in South Carolina, according to the U.S.

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The affected species include black-bellied whistling ducks, blue-winged teal and a variety of egrets.

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With the 1941 edition of “A Field Guide to Western Birds†in his pocket, he found a bufflehead duck, mallard and blue-winged teal on the Laramie Plains lakes.

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Another day, a small flock of blue-winged teal, hellbent for the tropics, strafed across my bow.

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