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Yellow-billed Teal Anas flavirostris Scientific name definitions

Carles Carboneras and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 19, 2016

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Introduction

The Yellow-billed Teal is a common duck of southern South America.  The species shows the compact proportions typical of teal and is gray below and brown above with a dark brown head and yellow bill.  Overall Yellow-billed Teal look like a darker, smaller and less elegant version of the widely sympatric Yellow-billed Pintail.  Birds from the high altiplano are pale silvery below, whereas the lowland race is darker grayish brown.  In flight and when excited, males give a creaky "peeet" call and females quack, also typical of teal.

Subspecies


EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

Yellow-billed Teal (flavirostris) Anas flavirostris flavirostris Scientific name definitions

Distribution

N Argentina, Uruguay and SE Brazil S to Tierra del Fuego; Falkland Is, South Georgia.

EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

Yellow-billed Teal (oxyptera) Anas flavirostris oxyptera Scientific name definitions

Distribution

Andes from C Peru (Cajamarca) S to NW Argentina (Catamarca).
Distribution of the Yellow-billed Teal - Range Map
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  • Year-round
  • Migration
  • Breeding
  • Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Yellow-billed Teal

Recommended Citation

Carboneras, C. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Yellow-billed Teal (Anas flavirostris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.yebtea1.01
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