Female and immature cinnamon teal are notoriously difficult to distinguish from blue-winged teal, says the All about Birds webpage produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Cinnamon teal are ...

But it worked. Some days it took us until 9:30 a.m. to shoot our birds (which is late for teal), but we got’em every time. If you are hunting with just a couple buddies, all it takes is three or four ...

Named for the large, powder-blue patches on their wings, bluewing teal are also distinguished by the white half-moon patch on the head of the drakes. They are small ducks, weighing under a pound ...

The handsome male blue-winged teal has a brownish body with an intricate spotted pattern. Note the gray head with a diagnostic bold white crescent on the face.

Blue-winged Teal. The largest of the three U.S. teal, a mature bluewing will weigh 18 to 24 ounces. In early fall, both drakes and hens will be a similarly mottled brown with a dark brown or black ...

That season opens Sept. 10. And, thanks to what appears to be an earlier-than-usual build-up of teal on the birds' preferred resting/recharging area on Texas' coastal plains and the unusually lush ...

The annual survey estimates a total breeding population of 4.599 million blue-winged teal. ... Only about 100,000 birds are needed to get the population back into the range for a 16-day season.

All three teal species — blue-wings, green-wings and cinnamon teal — are the only ducks legal to shoot during the early season. If you are not sure of the target, don't pull the trigger.

Eyes instinctively cut right, toward the unmistakable sound of wings ripping air, and caught a blur of blue-winged teal sweeping around a point on the prairie pothole. Then they were right there ...

Blue-winged teal A fast flier and one of the smallest ducks sought by Minnesota waterfowlers, "bluewings'' might be the tastiest of all fowl. Most waterfowlers, in fact, would trade even-up a ...