Cinnamon Teal

Male

Breeding males have a deep brownish-red body with a long black bill, red eye, and a black back and rear.

Female

Females and nonbreeding males have a coarsely marked brown body with faint darker eyeline and cap, and a long black bill.

Typically found in shallow freshwater wetlands such as marshes, flooded fields and ditches, ponds, and slow streams.

Male

Male

In flight note the green secondaries and powdery-blue shoulder.

Male and female

Note the plain-faced look on the female and the bright cinnamon-colored male.

Molting male

Male

In flight shows bright white underwings.

Female

Female and chick