Cinnamon Teal, pair
Spatula cyanoptera
Cinnamon Teal · San Diego · 6 March 2026
A pair of Cinnamon Teal out of the water and foraging along the bank of a San Diego pond, a scatter of American Coots behind them. This is a duck of the marshes of the American West, and unlike most dabbling ducks the western ones barely migrate, so a pair like this may hold the same stretch of pond for the whole season.
The male's colour is the rarest in North American ducks - nothing else on the continent is this red - and it fades to the female's brown by late summer, when he moults.
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