After all, none of the blue-winged teal they drop during the 16-day, teal-only season that opens Sept. 15 will wear the colorful plumage — the slate-blue head with the white crescent, spotted ...

The hen cinnamon teal (right) has a blue wing patch, but is otherwise drab-colored compared the drake. Susan Hodgson / Adobe Stock. Late winter and early spring is courting time for cinnamon teal ...

Mallards, wood ducks and blue-winged teal lead the state's harvest. ... But egg "dumping'' can in some instances mean one hen will incubate as many as 40 eggs — though all might not hatch.

Blue-winged Teal. The largest of the three U.S. teal, a mature bluewing will weigh 18 to 24 ounces. In early fall, both drakes and hens will be a similarly mottled brown with a dark brown or black ...

Discover Nature this week as a swift-flying, migratory duck begins returning to Missouri from the north. The blue-winged teal (Anas discors) breeds across North America, spending its summers as far ...

TealFight.jpg ...

This early in September, the ducks seen in Nebraska are nearly always blue-wing teal — a welcome harbinger of the hunting season and initiators of the waterfowl migration. Tune up for fall with teal ...