Cinnamon Teal
Spatula cyanoptera
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About the Cinnamon Teal
Small duck with chalky-blue patches on the upperwing (visible in flight). Breeding males unmistakable with rich reddish-brown color overall. Females are buffy-brownish overall and intricately patterned. Look for rather plain face and longer, more spatulate-shaped bill than Blue-winged Teal. Widespread and fairly common throughout western North America and South America, as far south as Tierra del Fuego. Usually found in shallow wetlands or marshes, where it can occur in pairs or flocks, sometimes mixed with other species of ducks.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 40 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
