Unggas air (Waterfowl)
Green-winged Teal
Anas carolinensis
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Risiko rendah
The smallest dabbling duck in North America. Flies in tight, twisting flocks that change direction like a single organism.
- Populasi
- ~3.9 million mature individuals, increasing
- Habitat
- Shallow freshwater wetlands for breeding — tundra wetlands and permanent freshwater marshes/pools, boreal forest bogs and peatlands, taiga bogs with snowmelt water; in winter, shallow ponds, flooded agricultural fields, coastal freshwater lakes, and saline/brackish salt marshes
- Fakta menarik
- The Green-winged Teal is the smallest dabbling duck in North America, yet the oldest known banded individual lived at least 20 years and 3 months.
- Sebaran
- Breeds across the northern Nearctic from Alaska through Canada to Saint Pierre et Miquelon; winters in southwestern Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean (regular vagrant to Europe, NW Africa, and NE Asia)
- Makanan
- Seeds and aquatic vegetation, plus small invertebrates filtered from water and mud using comblike lamellae along the bill edge, which let it capture smaller food items than other dabbling ducks
- Ukuran
- 0,35 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,56 m
- Masa hidup
- 8 tahun
