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Scientific Name: Sibirionetta formosa (Georgi, 1775)
Synonym: Anas formosa (Currently unaccepted)
English Name: Baikal Teal
Local/Bangla Name: Baikal Tilhash (বৈকাল তিলহাঁস)
Photo: vincentwang (iNaturalist)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Description:
During the breeding season, identifying male teals is unmistakable due to their vibrant colors. Males have a striking head pattern, a black-spotted pinkish breast with white vertical stripes running down, and black undertail coverts. Female teals have a more complex head pattern, featuring a dark-bordered white loral spot, a dark crown, and a buff supercilium that is broken above the eye. Their white throat curves up to form a half-moon-shaped cheek stripe. Both males and females have grey forewings and a broad white trailing edge to the wing in flight. Female teals and eclipse males appear similar, but the eclipse males have darker and more rufous fringes on the mantle, with rufous-colored breast and flanks.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
It breeds in pools on the tundra edge and within swampy forests. It builds nests near water in open tussock meadows and in mossy bogs. It winters on freshwater lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and farmland, often roosting on water during the day and feeding in fields during the night.
Environment:
Freshwater, Terrestrial
Comments:
Vagrant
Main References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (eds.) (2008) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 26. Birds. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 662 pp.
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