Other surface feeding ducks that are fairly common locally include: gadwall, mallard, northern pintail and the cinnamon and green-winged teal. Like other teal, the blue-winged is smaller than a ...

There are three subspecies of teal commonly found in the U.S. For the most part, blue-winged and green-winged ... shallow water in which to tip-up to feed on vegetation, bugs, and aquatic ...

Teal — blue-winged, green-winged and cinnamon — are ... Teal are dabblers. They feed primarily in skinny water ripe with new growth new growth vegetation and seeds they can easily reach.

They love spinning-wing decoys more than a country boy loves Hank Williams. Consistently locating teal is the key. Over the years, I my buddy Joe Weimer and I have found different ways to target ...

I’ll try to cover the topic as best I can. First of all, teal, especially blue-winged teal, are early migrants. Many blue-winged teal will start their migration movement in early September.

“Teal season is essentially six bonus hunting days for waterfowl hunters outside of the regular duck season where you can shoot teal only,” Carr says, “so we’re talking about blue wing ...

Blue-wing teal, by contrast, swim away and stay hidden, making them harder to count. Wood ducks aren't as prevalent in Minnesota as mallards in part because they're not generally a prairie nesting ...

In that regard, the late Georgia ornithologist Thomas Burleigh described the bird as distinct in its migratory habits: “The blue-winged teal is unique in its reluctance to experience even a ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2024 waterfowl population status report released Tuesday indicates another significant drop in numbers for blue-winged teal, an important species for Texas ...

For the first time on record, hunters in Minnesota in 2022 shot more blue-winged teal and ring-necked ducks than mallards A mallard drake rises from a wetland. For the first time ever, Minnesota ...