cinnamon teal

cinnamon teal
noun
: a small wild duck (Anas cyanoptera) of western No. America much resembling the blue-winged teal in appearance and habits but having the male more markedly brownish red about the head and body

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a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
[1890-95, Amer.]

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cinnamon teal,
a small duck of western North America having a blue patch on the wing, and, in the male, a cinnamon-colored body. It usually migrates south in the winter, often to Mexico.

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