Green-Winged Teal (Anas crecca)

County List:

Rule:

Mixed Foreseted/Nonforested or Nonforested Landscapes

Nesting and Brood Rearing Habitats are Adjacent to each other

Nesting Habitat:
      (Fields/Pastures or Upland Brush) 
   adjacent to:
      Pond

Brood Rearing Habitat:
      Pond
   adjacent to:
      (Any Emergent Wetland or Sedge Meadow or Lowland Brush)

Habitat List:

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Literature:

Habitat: A ground-nesting species, the Green-winged Teal nests primarily in upland habitats. Females prefer dense stands of grasses, weeds, or brush as nesting habitat, but will use any available cover that is near open water. The nest is established within 100 m of water, generally a pond, slough, or marsh that will later provide brood habitat. Wetlands selected for brood rearing must provide both high protein foods, such as aquatic invertebrates, and high energy foods, such as seeds. Mudflats, shallow marshes, and temporarily flooded cropland are preferred sites that apparently provide the nutritional requirements of both young and adult birds.

Habitat: Breeding: Ponds, lakes, sedge meadows, marshes near grasslands, dry hillsides with bushy thickets or adjacent open woodlands. Generally an upland nester.

Habitat: Marshes, rivers, bays. In summer, open country near shallow freshwater lakes and marshes. In migration and winter, found on coastal estuaries and tidal marshes on shallow lakes and ponds inland, seeming to prefer those with much standing or floating vegetation.

Diet: Mostly plant material. Diet quite variable with season and location. Feeds especially on seeds of grasses, sedges, pondweeds, many others. Also takes aquatic insects, crustaceans, mollusks, tadpoles; rarely earthworms, fish eggs. May feed on animal matter in summer, seeds in winter.

Nest: Site is usually among grasses and weeds of meadow, sometimes in open woodland or brush, within 200 feet of water. Well hidden by surrounding grasses or shrubs, which often form complete canopy. Nest is a shallow depression filled with grasses, twigs, and leaves, lined with down.