Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds
Found throughout Australia, the Grey Teal is one of the smaller Australian ducks (the males are larger than females).
The Grey Teal are a mottled grey-brown, each feather of the body is edged with buff, except on the rump. The chin and throat are white, the cap and eye stripe a bit darker, the bill is grey ans the legs and feet are dark-grey. Their secondary wing feathers have glossy blue-black patch, are broadly bordered and tipped with white. When in flight, a large white wedge is visible on the underwing. In the adult bird, the eyes are red.
Juvenile Grey Teals have paler colours than adults and brown eyes.
They are found in small to large flocks, in all types of wetland habitats, brackish to salt water, river systems and inland areas such as the seen here at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds. They feed on aquatic invertebrates and shoreline vegetation, that include grasses and sedges. The Grey Teal feed by dabbling, mud filtering and the occasional dives.
The photographs shown here were taking in the month of March, June, August and December.
Check out our Birds | Grey Teal (Anas gracilis)
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Informal: Gnathostomata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Subfamily: Anatinae
- Genus: Anas
- Species: Anas gracilis
- Subspecies: Anas (Nettion) gracilis gracilis Buller, 1869
Footnote & References
- Anas (Nettion) gracilis Buller, 1869, Grey Teal, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Anas (Nettion) gracilis
- Grey Teal (Anas gracilis), M Dahlem, https://mdahlem.net/birds/2/greyteal.php
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