Editing Cinnamon teal

{{short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Cinnamon teal
| image = Sarcelle cannelle (Spatula cyanoptera).jpg
| image_caption = Male 
| image2 = Anas_cyanoptera_2.jpg
| image2_caption = Female
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Spatula cyanoptera'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22680233A92851668 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680233A92851668.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Spatula
| species = cyanoptera
| authority = ([[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1816)
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision = 4 living, 1 possibly extinct; see text
| synonyms = ''Anas cyanoptera'' <small>Vieillot, 1816</small>
| range_map = Spatula cyanoptera map.svg
|range_map_caption={{legend|#FF7F2A|Breeding}}{{legend|#FFDD55|Migration}}{{legend|#7137C8|Year-round}}{{legend|#5F8DD3|Nonbreeding}}
}}
{{birdsong|url=https://xeno-canto.org/species/Spatula-cyanoptera|species=Cinnamon Teal}}

The '''cinnamon teal''' ('''''Spatula cyanoptera''''') is a [[species]] of [[duck]] found in western [[North America|North]] and [[South America]]. It is a small [[dabbling duck]], with bright reddish plumage on the male and duller brown plumage on the female. It lives in [[marshes]] and [[ponds]], and feeds mostly on plants. The cinnamon teal duck is closely related to the north american dabbling duck.(Wilson et al.)

== Description ==
The adult male has a cinnamon-red head and body with a brown back, a red eye and a dark bill. The adult female has a mottled brown body, a pale brown head, brown eyes and a grey bill and is very similar in appearance to a female [[blue-winged teal]]; however, its overall color is richer, the [[Lore (anatomy)|lores]], eye line, and eye ring are less distinct. Its bill is longer and more spatulate. Male juvenile resembles a female cinnamon or blue-winged teal but their eyes are red.<ref name="Dunn">Dunn, J (2006)</ref><ref name="Floyd" /> They are {{convert|16|in|cm|abbr=on}} long, have a {{convert|22|in|adj=on}} wingspan, and weigh {{convert|14|oz|g|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Floyd">Floyd T (2008)</ref> They have 2 adult molts per year and a third molt in their first year.<ref name="Floyd" />

<gallery widths="200" heights="160">
File:Anas cyanoptera1.jpg|Female ''Spatula cyanoptera septentrionalium''
File:Cinnamon Teal Pair.jpg|Male (left) and female
File:Cinnamon Teal male RWD2.jpg|Male
</gallery>'''Habits and Lifestyle'''

The Cinnamon Teal Duck is an aquatic bird, but it can also run and walk on land to catch certain prey like little bugs and insects. When they aren’t skimming the water or the land for bugs, they sleep. The females sleep together in a huddle, while the males stay awake and alert to protect the females. Ducks usually make a loud quacking sound, but the Cinnamon Teal is a quieter duck. Females will make a loud “quack” when needed to and the males will produce a nasal, whistling song.

== Distribution ==
Their breeding habitat is marshes and ponds in western [[United States]] and extreme southwestern [[Canada]], and are rare visitors to the east coast of the [[United States]].<ref name="Floyd" /> One young male duck was spotted in [[Grimsby, Ontario]], and became a tourist attraction due to its rarity outside of western Canada.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chandler |first1=Justin |title=Wayward duck in Niagara draws mad rush of birders looking to photograph the 'mega-rarity' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/1.7327330 |website=CBC News |access-date=19 September 2024}}</ref> Cinnamon teal generally select new mates each year. They are [[bird migration|migratory]] and most winter in northern South America and the [[Caribbean]],<ref>Herrera ''et al.'' (2006)</ref> generally not migrating as far as the [[blue-winged teal]]. Some winter in [[California]] and southwestern [[Arizona]].<ref name="Dunn" /> Two subspecies of cinnamon teal reside within the Andes of South America. The smaller sized ''S. c. cyanoptera'' is widespread within low elevations (<1000m) such as the coast of Peru and southern Argentina, whereas the larger size subspecies ''S. c. orinomus'' occupies elevations of 3500–4600 meters in the central Andes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=Robert E.|last2=Peters|first2=Jeffrey L.|last3=McCracken|first3=Kevin G.|title=Genetic and Phenotypic Divergence Between Low- and High-Altitude Populations of Two Recently Diverged Cinnamon Teal Subspecies|date=2012-08-10|journal=Evolution|language=en|volume=67|issue=1|pages=170–184|doi=10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01740.x|pmid=23289570|s2cid=8378355|issn=0014-3820}}</ref>

== Behavior ==
Cinnamon Teal ducks are dabbling ducks which mean they take most of their food at or near the surface by rapidly opening and closing the bill to take seeds, zooplankton, and insects. They can also feed like Northern Shovelers following each other in tight groups as they slowly feed across on area. Many of them eat plants, seeds an shoots of marsh grasses. A small portion of their diet is snails, beetles, dragonflies, water fleas, and many types of flies. They mainly eat plants; their diet may also include [[mollusc]]s and aquatic [[insect]]s.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Alexander Campbell Martin |author2=Herbert Spencer Zim |author3=Arnold L. Nelson |year=1961 |title=American Wildlife & Plants: A Guide to Wildlife Food Habits: The Use of Trees, Shrubs, Weeds, and Herbs by Birds and Mammals of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Srcs-QkT0v0C&pg=PA63 |publisher=Courier Corporation |pages=63–64 |isbn=978-0-486-20793-3 }}</ref>

== Taxonomy ==
They are known to interbreed with [[blue-winged teal]]s,<ref name="Dunn" /> which are very close relatives.

[[Subspecies]] are:

* ''Spatula cyanoptera septentrionalium'' ([[Harry Church Oberholser|Oberholser]], 1906) '''northern cinnamon teal''' breeds from [[British Columbia]] to northwestern [[New Mexico]], and they winter in northwestern [[South America]].<ref name="Clements">Clements, J (2007)</ref>
* ''Spatula cyanoptera tropica'' (Snyder & Lumsden, 1951) '''tropical cinnamon teal''' occurs in the [[Cauca River|Cauca Valley]] and [[Magdalena Valley]] in [[Colombia]].<ref name="Clements" />
* ''Spatula cyanoptera borreroi'' (Snyder & Lumsden, 1951) '''Borrero's cinnamon teal''' (possibly [[extinct]]) occurs in the eastern [[Andes]] of [[Colombia]] with records of apparently resident birds from northern [[Ecuador]].<ref name="Clements" /> It is named for Colombian ornithologist [[José Ignacio Borrero]].
* ''Spatula cyanoptera orinoma'' (Snyder & Lumsden, 1951) '''Andean cinnamon teal''' occurs in the [[Altiplano]] of [[Peru]], northern [[Chile]] and [[Bolivia]].<ref name="Clements" />
* ''Spatula cyanoptera cyanoptera'' (Vieillot, 1816) '''Argentine cinnamon teal''' occurs in southern [[Peru]], southern [[Brazil]], [[Argentina]], [[Chile]], and the [[Falkland Islands]].<ref name="Clements" />

==References==
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==Works cited==
* Clements, James (2007). [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4566 ''The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World'']. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
* Dunn, J. & Alderfer, J. (2006) ''National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America'' 5th ed.
* Floyd, T (2008) ''Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America''. New York: HarperCollins.
* Herrera, Néstor; Rivera, Roberto; Ibarra Portillo, Ricardo & Rodríguez, Wilfredo (2006). [http://www.sao.org.co/publicaciones/boletinsao/01-Herrera.etal.RecordsSalvador.pdf "Nuevos registros para la avifauna de El Salvador"] ("New records for the avifauna of El Salvador") (Spanish with English abstract). ''Boletín de la Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología'' '''16'''(2): 1–19.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Spatula cyanoptera}}
{{Wikispecies|Anas cyanoptera}}
* {{InternetBirdCollection|cinnamon-teal-anas-cyanoptera|Cinnamon Teal}}
* [http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/209/articles/introduction Cinnamon Teal]—Birds of North America Online
* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Cinnamon_Teal.html Cinnamon Teal Species Account]—Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* {{VIREO|Cinnamon+Teal|Cinnamon Teal}}
* {{IUCN_Map|22680233|Anas cyanoptera}}

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[[Category:Birds described in 1816]]
[[Category:Birds of Argentina]]
[[Category:Birds of Colombia]]
[[Category:Birds of Ecuador]]
[[Category:Birds of Mexico]]
[[Category:Birds of North America]]
[[Category:Birds of Patagonia]]
[[Category:Birds of Peru]]
[[Category:Birds of the Americas]]
[[Category:Birds of the Falkland Islands]]
[[Category:Birds of Uruguay]]
[[Category:Native birds of the Canadian Prairies]]
[[Category:Native birds of the Western United States]]
[[Category:Native birds of Western Canada]]
[[Category:Spatula (genus)]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot]]