Today’s bird

Blue-winged Teal

Spatula discors

Family: Ducks, geese, and waterfowl

Blue-winged Teal is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.

Did you know

  1. These birds feed by dabbling in shallow water at the edge of marshes or open water.

  2. They are surface feeders and prefer to feed on mud flats, in fields, or in shallow water where there is floating and shallowly submerged vegetation plus abundant small aquatic animal life.

  3. All nest losses caused by birds were attributed to either crows or magpies.

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