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Latin                 -               Amazonetta brasiliensis

The Brazilian Teal was quite a common sight when I was staying at REGUA. (Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu) Normally I would see them in a body of water while I was walking a connecting track from the Wetlands trail (yellow trail) to the Forest trail. (brown trail) Quite a hard species to get close to. They seemed very wary an would swim away once they sensed you were there.

* The Brazilian Teal is also called the Brazilian Duck.

* The Brazilian Teal is a small duck of around 40 cm in length and with a weight of 350–556 g (nominate), 565–623 g.

* The male has strong, piercing “whee-whee-whee” whistle, or double-noted “whe-wheeew”.

* They are found throughout eastern South America, from Uruguay, to northern and eastern Argentina, Paraguay, central Venezuela, Brazil, northeastern Peru, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Bolivia, and eastern Colombia.

* Their preferred habitat is wetlands, freshwater lakes, lagoons, pools, and marshes away from the coast with dense vegetation nearby. 

* The Brazilian Teal diet includes seeds, fruits, roots and insects. Duckling only eat insects.

* The females lays 6-8 eggs which are incubated for about 25 days. Nestlings will stay with the mother until they reach the capacity to fly.

*The Brazilian Teal is not globally threatened. It has a huge distributed and large numbers therefore it is classified as a species ”of least concern” on the IUCN red list.