Hunters target blue-winged and green-winged teal in the early September teal seasons. (Photo/Stan Adobe Stock) The Teal Trifecta: A Hunting Guide to Bluewings, Greenwings, and Cinnamons ...

Texas' 2024 teal hunting season runs Sept. 14-29, but the 2025 season will be cut to nine days due to a dip in blue-winged teal population numbers.

Aug. 9—ST. PAUL — Minnesota's blue-winged teal population is down 60% from last year, the Department of Natural Resources said in reporting results from its 2025 waterfowl population survey ...

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 ...

Quacks of the tiny teal are higher-pitched and among flocks the blue-winged will emit odd swirling whistles. Joe LaFleur studied wildlife biology and communications at Colorado State University.

The stately greenhead rules with the duck hunting masses, but the blue-winged teal is the early bird favorite with Texas’ waterfowl crowd. Teal are always the first ducks to hightail it out of ...

Mortality: Blue-winged teal have the highest annual mortality of any of the dabbling duck species - as high as 65 percent. Long ocean migrations are thought to play a major role in mortality.

It was a good day for spotting dabbling ducks at the Exeter Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 31.Eighteen blue-winged teal, a green-winged teal, an American golden-plover, a pectoral sandpiper ...

The blue-winged teal prefers to live in small flocks, often only in groups of four to five pairs. It is a monogamous species, and during the breeding season, females will construct a simplistic ...

Teal generally stay in Missouri only briefly, so the best time to find them usually occurs when cold fronts bring winds favorable for migration. Learn more about blue-winged teal and other migratory ...

The estimated spring tally of 64,000 blue-winged teal is the lowest blue-winged teal population in Minnesota since the survey started in 1968, the DNR said.