{"id":8057,"date":"2021-01-23T18:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T23:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=8057"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:56:34","slug":"green-winged-teal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/23\/green-winged-teal\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Green-winged Teal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I mentioned in my previous post that we found a very large flock of green-winged teal ducks on Thursday. Finding the green-wings completes the &#8220;teal trifecta&#8221; for me for 2021. There are 3 species of teal in North America &#8211; blue-winged, green-winged and cinnamon. Two weeks ago we found a cinnamon teal which is a rare sight this far east. There were blue-winged teal with the cinnamon teal. We see the blue-wings frequently. Although green-winged teal are fairly common in this area, they&#8217;re often tucked away on ponds or marshes that are inaccessible except by boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection.jpg\" alt=\"Green Winged Teal Watching Across Water With Reflection\" class=\"wp-image-98765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-watching-across-water-with-reflection-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Male Green-winged Teal Watches Across the Water<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>These were the first green-winged teal I&#8217;ve seen in over 30 years. They are beautiful little ducks. I&#8217;m hoping to get back out and attempt to get closer to them. If I&#8217;m successful, you&#8217;ll see the results right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in my previous post that we found a very large flock of green-winged teal ducks on Thursday. Finding the green-wings completes the &#8220;teal trifecta&#8221; for me for 2021. There are 3 species of teal in North America &#8211; blue-winged, green-winged and cinnamon. Two weeks ago we found a cinnamon teal which is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-8057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-green-winged-teal-male-standing-on-grass-island-with-reflection.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109173,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8057\/revisions\/109173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}