Speckled Teal/ Sharp-winged Teal/

Yellow-billed Teal/ (Chilean Teal)

Anas flavirostris oxyptera

Speckled Teal Sharp-winged Teal

The Sharp-winged or Speckled Teal (also Yellow-billed or Chilean Teal, see below) normally lives at high altitude in the Andes
Sharp-winged Teal

 Male and female have similar plumage but the male (right) is slightly darker and slightly larger

  
Speckled Teal Speckled Teal
 

A pair of Sharp-winged or Speckled Teals
       
 

There are several YELLOW-BILLED duck species.

  • The SPECKLED TEAL, above, also called the Yellow-billed Teal and the taxonomic name Anas flavirostris inhabits much of South America (including South Georgia).

  • It has 4 sub-species in different areas, including the CHILEAN TEAL (the nominate species Anas flavirostris flavirostris) from Brazil through to the Falklands (and South Georgia), and the SHARP-WINGED TEAL (Anas flavirostris oxyptera) featured here, which lives in Peru, Chile and Argentina.

  • The YELLOW-BILLED PINTAIL, Anas georgica, with nominate sub-species SOUTH GEORGIA PINTAIL, is also mistakenly sometimes referred to as the Yellow-billed Teal. It is larger than the Speckled Teal and also comes from South America, including the islands of South Georgia from which it is named.

  • The YELLOW-BILLED DUCK, Anas undulata, is a mallard-sized duck from south and east Africa.

  • The SPOT-BILLED DUCK or SPOTBILL, Anas poecilorhyncha, with its sub-species Indian (nominate), Chinese and Burmese, comes from Asia.

  
   
   

 

  
       

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