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Today’s duck of the day is Eurasian green-winged Teal!

A small dabbling duck that’s really widespread in temperate Eurasia and is famous for its iridescent emerald green feathers! Its diet changes between seasons. Feeding on crustaceans,mollusks and insects during breeding season and switching to a seed based diet during winter. They’re strongly migratory and migrate to south during winter. And are known to be gregarious outside of breeding season,forming huge flocks

Previously it was considered that the American green winged teals and Eurasian winged teals were the same species due to their similar appearance but are actually quite different both on behavioural, molecular and morphological level and are now considered two distinct species.

The main physical difference between the two is a white stripe on their bodies. Eurasian teals have a horizontal stripe under their wings while American teals have a vertical stripe near the chest.

Did you know? The word for the color teal comes from the coloration of teal ducks!

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Today’s duck of the day is: Long-tailed duck!

A sea duck that’s spread out across the northern coastlines of Pacific and Atlantic oceans. And the only member of it’s genus Clangula!

They breed near arctic wetlands and have a diet that consists of crustaceans,mollusks and small fish!

(On first picture - a male long tailed duck; on second - a female)

Image source: https://ebird.org/species/lotduc