Subhash,
Beautiful set of teal photos! ?You may not realize that the Green-winged Teal you photographed is the Eurasian subspecies (considered a full species, Common Teal, in Europe). ?The horizontal white stripe and bold white outline to the facial pattern separate it from American Green-winged Teal. This is an excellent find, as they are fairly rare. ?
Bird on,
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On Feb 19, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Subhash Chand via groups.io <SubhashC@...> wrote:
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On Feb 15, I went to Las Gallinas Sanitation District in Marin County and got to see 3 kinds of Teals:
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? Green-winged Teal
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? Cinnamon Teal
<Teal, Blue-winged LasGallinas2022-2-15_1766.JPG>
? Blue-winged Teal
Other pictures from that trip are at:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2022-02-15&place_id=any&user_id=subhashc&verifiable=any
Subhash
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<Teal, Cinnamon LasGallinas2022-2-15_1811.JPG>
<Teal, Blue-winged LasGallinas2022-2-15_1766.JPG>
