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38-456: Teal is a greenish-blue color. Its name comes from that of a bird—the Eurasian teal ( Anas crecca )—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or gray. It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors . In

76-423: A bright yellowish-buff triangular patch in the center of the coverts at each side. In non-breeding (eclipse) plumage, the drake looks more like the hen; it is more uniform in colour, with a dark head and vestigial facial markings. The hen itself is yellowish-brown, somewhat darker on wings and back. It has a dark greyish-brown upper head, hindneck, eyestripe and feather pattern. The pattern is dense short streaks on

114-478: A heavily used color in the 1950s and 1960s. Teal blue is also the name of a Crayola crayon color (color #113) from 1990 to 2003. Teal green is a darker shade of teal with more green. It is a variable color averaging a dark bluish-green that is green, darker, and stronger than invisible green or pine tree. Teal green is most closely related to the Crayola crayon color Deep Space Sparkle. Deep sea green

152-446: A largely granivorous diet, feeding on seeds of aquatic plants and grasses , including sedges and grains . Diurnal throughout the breeding season, in winter they are often crepuscular or even nocturnal feeders. It nests on the ground, near water and under cover. The pairs form in the winter quarters and arrive on the breeding grounds together, starting about March. The breeding starts some weeks thereafter, not until May in

190-419: A single line of that colour extends from the patch's forward end, curving along the base of the bill. The breast is buff with small round brown spots. The center of the belly is white, and the rest of the body plumage is mostly white with thin and dense blackish vermiculations , appearing medium grey even at a short distance. The outer scapular feathers are white, with a black border to the outer vanes, and form

228-553: A small bird. Apomorph Examples of apomorphy are the presence of erect gait , fur , the evolution of three middle ear bones , and mammary glands in mammals but not in other vertebrate animals such as amphibians or reptiles , which have retained their ancestral traits of a sprawling gait and lack of fur. Thus, these derived traits are also synapomorphies of mammals in general as they are not shared by other vertebrate animals. The word synapomorphy —coined by German entomologist Willi Hennig —is derived from

266-414: A stronger pattern. The downy young are coloured like in other dabbling ducks: brown above and yellow below, with a yellow supercilium . They are recognizable by their tiny size however, weighing just 15 g (0.53 oz) at hatching. The drake's bill is dark grey, in eclipse plumage often with some light greenish or brownish hue at the base. The bill of hens and immatures is pinkish or yellowish at

304-477: A synapomorphy is the marker for the most recent common ancestor of the monophyletic group consisting of a set of taxa in a cladogram. What counts as a synapomorphy for one clade may well be a primitive character or plesiomorphy at a less inclusive or nested clade. For example, the presence of mammary glands is a synapomorphy for mammals in relation to tetrapods but is a symplesiomorphy for mammals in relation to one another—rodents and primates, for example. So

342-444: A wealth of behavioural, morphological, and molecular data. The Eurasian teal was first scientifically named by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 edition of Systema naturae . His Latin description reads: [Anas] macula alarum viridi, linea alba supra infraque oculos – "a duck with green speculum, a white line above and below the eyes" – and his primary reference was the bird's description in his earlier work Fauna Svecica . In fact,

380-409: Is a noisy species. The male whistles cryc or creelycc , not loud but very clear and far-carrying. The female has a feeble keh or neeh quack .  Males in nuptial plumage are distinguished from green-winged teals by the horizontal white scapular stripe, the lack of a vertical white bar at the breast sides, and the quite conspicuous light outlines of the face patch, which are indistinct in

418-716: Is derived from the Middle English tele , a word akin to the Dutch taling and the Middle Low German telink . Teal blue is a medium tone of teal with more blue. The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System , a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers . Teal was subsequently

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456-1148: Is much less common than its American counterpart, though still very plentiful. Its numbers are mainly assessed by counts of wintering birds; some 750,000 are recorded annually around the Mediterranean and Black Seas , 250,000 in temperate western Europe , and more than 110,000 in Japan . In 1990 and 1991, a more detailed census was undertaken, yielding over 210,000 birds wintering in Iran , some 109,000 in Pakistan , about 77,000 in Azerbaijan , some 37,000 in India , 28,000 in Israel , over 14,000 in Turkmenistan and almost 12,000 in Taiwan . It appears to be holding its own currently, with its slow decline of maybe 1–2% annually in

494-414: Is often called simply the teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range. The bird gives its name to the blue-green colour teal . It is a highly gregarious duck outside the breeding season and can form large flocks. It is commonly found in sheltered wetlands and feeds on seeds and aquatic invertebrates. The North American green-winged teal ( A. carolinensis )

532-400: Is often seen in brackish waters and even in sheltered inlets and lagoons along the seashore. The Eurasian teal usually feeds by dabbling, upending or grazing; it may submerge its head and on occasion even dive to reach food. In the breeding season it eats mainly aquatic invertebrates , such as crustaceans , insects and their larvae , molluscs and worms . In winter, it shifts to

570-571: Is one of the paint colors manufactured and marketed by American paint company Benjamin Moore . Academia Teal, along with Bronze, is the school color for Coastal Carolina University . Eurasian teal Anas crecca crecca Linnaeus , 1758 Anas crecca nimia Friedmann , 1948 The Eurasian teal ( Anas crecca ), common teal , or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter. The Eurasian teal

608-690: Is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies. This dabbling duck is highly gregarious outside of the breeding season and will form large flocks. In flight, the fast, twisting flocks resemble waders ; despite its short legs, it is also rather nimble on the ground by ducks' standards. In the breeding season, it is a common inhabitant of sheltered freshwater wetlands with some tall vegetation, such as taiga bogs or small lakes and ponds with extensive reedbeds . In winter, it

646-519: The Historiae animalium as the anas parva ("small duck") among his querquedulae ("teals"); Ulisse Aldrovandi had called it phascade or querquedula minor ("lesser teal"), and was duly referenced by Francis Willughby who named the species querquedula secunda Aldrovandi ("the second teal of Aldrovandi" ). John Ray may be credited with formally introducing the name "common teal", while Eleazar Albin called it simply "the teal". As regards

684-799: The Aleutian Islands , differs only in slightly larger size; it is probably not distinct. Whether the Eurasian and green-winged teals are to be treated as one or two species is still being reviewed by the American Ornithologists' Union , while the International Union for Conservation of Nature and BirdLife International separate them nowadays. Despite the almost identical and highly apomorphic nuptial plumage of their males, which continues to puzzle scientists, they seem well distinct species, as indicated by

722-557: The Ancient Greek words σύν ( sún ), meaning "with, together"; ἀπό ( apó ), meaning "away from"; and μορφή ( morphḗ ), meaning "shape, form". Lampreys and sharks share some features, like a nervous system, that are not synapomorphic because they are also shared by invertebrates . In contrast, the presence of jaws and paired appendages in both sharks and dogs, but not in lampreys or close invertebrate relatives, identifies these traits as synapomorphies. This supports

760-535: The Bokmål krikkand , Danish krikand and German Krickente mean the same. The Eurasian teal is one of the smallest extant dabbling ducks at 34–43 cm (13–17 in) length and with an average weight of 360 g (13 oz) in drake (males) and 340 g (12 oz) in hens (females). The wings are 17.5–20.4 cm (6.9–8.0 in) long, yielding a wingspan of 53–59 cm (21–23 in). The bill measures 3.2–4 cm (1.3–1.6 in) in length, and

798-718: The Senegal River estuary, the swamps of the upper Congo River , the inland and sea deltas of the Niger River , and the central Indus River valley. Vagrants have been seen in inland Zaire , Malaysia , on Greenland , and on the Marianas , Palau and Yap in Micronesia ; they are regularly recorded on the North American coasts south to California and South Carolina , including annual sightings on

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836-654: The United Kingdom and Ireland a small summer population breeds, but far greater numbers of Siberian birds arrive in winter. In the Caucasus region, western Asia Minor , along the northern shores of the Black Sea , and even on the south coast of Iceland and on the Vestmannaeyjar , the species can be encountered all year, too. In winter, there are high densities around the Mediterranean , including

874-443: The tarsus 2.8–3.4 cm (1.1–1.3 in). From a distance, the drakes in nuptial plumage appear grey, with a dark head, a yellowish behind, and a white stripe running along the flanks. Their head and upper neck is chestnut , with a wide and iridescent dark green patch of half-moon- or teardrop-shape that starts immediately before the eye and arcs to the upper hindneck. The patch is bordered with thin yellowish-white lines, and

912-646: The type locality Linnaeus simply remarked that it inhabits freshwater ecosystems in Europe . The scientific name is from Latin Anas , "duck" and kricka , the Swedish name for this species. The specific name of Linnaeus is onomatopoetic , referring to the male's characteristic call which was already discussed by Linnaeus' sources. The scientific name of the Eurasian teal—unchanged since Linnaeus' time— therefore translates as "duck that makes cryc "; common names like

950-438: The 1990s – presumably mainly due to drainage and pollution of wetlands – not warranting action other than continuing to monitor the population and possibly providing better protection for habitat on the wintering grounds. The IUCN and BirdLife International classify the Eurasian teal as a species of Least Concern , unchanged from their assessment before the split of the more numerous A. carolinensis . The Eurasian teal

988-455: The RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half. In North America , teal was a fad color during the 1990s, with, among others, many sports teams adopting the color for their uniforms. The first recorded use of teal as a color name in English was in 1917. The term teal (referring to a species of duck)

1026-409: The base, becoming dark grey towards the tip; the grey expands basewards as the birds age. The feet are dark grey in males and greyish olive or greyish-brown in females and immatures. The iris is always brown. Moults during summer. Male in eclipse resembles female, but with darker upperparts and grey bill. Flight feathers are moulted simultaneously and birds are flightless for up to 4 weeks. This

1064-531: The concept can be understood as well in terms of "a character newer than" ( autapomorphy ) and "a character older than" ( plesiomorphy ) the apomorphy: mammary glands are evolutionarily newer than vertebral column, so mammary glands are an autapomorphy if vertebral column is an apomorphy, but if mammary glands are the apomorphy being considered then vertebral column is a plesiomorphy. These phylogenetic terms are used to describe different patterns of ancestral and derived character or trait states as stated in

1102-638: The description he used in Systema Naturae was the name under which the bird went in the Fauna Svecica , demonstrating the value of his new binomial nomenclature by compressing the long-winded names formerly used in biological classification into much simpler scientific names like Anas crecca . Linnaeus also noted in his description that earlier authors had already written about the Eurasan teal at length: Conrad Gessner had described it in

1140-582: The entire Iberian Peninsula and extending west to Mauretania ; on Japan and Taiwan ; as well as in South Asia . Other important wintering locations include almost the entire length of the Nile Valley , the Near East and Persian Gulf region, the mountain ranges of northern Iran , and South Korea and continental East and Southeast Asia . More isolated wintering grounds are Lake Victoria ,

1178-479: The green-winged teal drake. Males in eclipse plumage, females and immatures are best recognised by their small size, calls, and the speculum; they are hard to tell apart from the green-winged teal however. The Eurasian teal breeds across the Palearctic and mostly winters well south of its breeding range. However, in the milder climate of temperate Europe , the summer and winter ranges overlap. For example, in

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1216-456: The head and neck, and scaly spots on the rest of the body; overall they look much like a tiny mallard ( A. platyrhynchos ) hen when at rest. The wings are coloured similar to the drake's, but with brown instead of grey upperwing coverts that have less wide tips, and wider tips of the speculum feathers. The hen's rectrices have yellowish-white tips; the midbelly is whitish with some dark streaking. Immatures are coloured much like hens, but have

1254-510: The hypothesis that dogs and sharks are more closely related to each other than to lampreys. The concept of synapomorphy depends on a given clade in the tree of life. Cladograms are diagrams that depict evolutionary relationships within groups of taxa. These illustrations are accurate predictive device in modern genetics. They are usually depicted in either tree or ladder form. Synapomorphies then create evidence for historical relationships and their associated hierarchical structure. Evolutionarily,

1292-594: The island of Newfoundland . From tracking wintering teal in Italy, most individuals departed the wintering grounds between mid-February and March, using the Black-Sea-Mediterranean flyway to reach their breeding grounds, from central Europe to east of the Urals, by May. This slow migration is due to long stopovers near the start of migration, mainly in south-eastern Europe. Altogether, the Eurasian teal

1330-513: The most northernly locations. The nest is a deep hollow lined with dry leaves and down feathers , built in dense vegetation near water. After the females have started laying, the males leave them and move away for shorter or longer distances, assembling in flocks on particular lakes where they moult into eclipse plumage ; they will usually encounter their offspring only in winter quarters. The clutch may consist of 5–16 eggs, but usually numbers 8–11; they are incubated for 21–23 days. The young leave

1368-416: The nest soon after hatching and are attended by the mother for about 25–30 days, after which they fledge . The drakes and the hens with young generally move to the winter quarters separately. After the first winter, the young moult into adult plumage. The maximum recorded lifespan – though it is not clear whether this refers to the common or the green-winged teal—was over 27 years, which is rather high for such

1406-450: The white side-stripe when the bird is in resting position. The primary remiges are dark greyish brown; the speculum feathers are iridescent blackish-green with white tips, and form the speculum together with the yellowish-white tips of the larger upperwing coverts (which are otherwise grey). The underwing is whitish, with grey remiges, dense dark spotting on the inner coverts and a dark leading edge. The tail and tail coverts are black, with

1444-457: Was formerly (and sometimes is still) considered a subspecies of A. crecca . The Eurasian teal belongs to the "true" teals, a group of small Anas dabbling ducks closely related to the mallard ( A. platyrhynchos ) and its relatives; that latter group in fact seems to have evolved from a true teal. It forms a superspecies with the green-winged teal and the speckled teal ( A. flavirostris ). A proposed subspecies , A. c. nimia of

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