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Anas crecca : Teal - Anatidae W1CDR0001378 BD3 The calls of the
female and male teals, recorded on Brownsea Island, Dorset. The
teal is the smallest and one of the most dapper British ducks.
The male has a distinctive chestnut-brown head with a green eye-
patch and a prominent yellow patch on the side of its tail, in
contrast to the dull speckled-brown female. Although up to 2,600
pairs breed in the wet moorland and bogs of northern England and
Scotland, the teal is much more abundant when around 200,000
birds influx from Iceland and northern Europe to spend autumn
and winter in Britain. During this period, the teal frequents
lowland lakes, gravel pits, reservoirs, and coastal lagoons in
small flocks. It feeds in shallow water at night by picking food
off the water's surface, filtering the water with its bill, and
by upending. Its food consists of the seeds of aquatic and marsh
plants in winter, and molluscs, aquatic larvae, and water
beetles in s