Ducks, Geese and Swans (Anatidae)
Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) - HBW 1, p. 605
French: Sarcelle rousse
German: Kastanienente
Spanish: Cerceta Castaña
Other common names: Red/Chestnut breasted Teal, Brown Teal (!)
Taxonomy: Mareca castanea Eyton, 1838, New South Wales.
Sometimes placed in genus Nettion. Forms superspecies with A. aucklandica. Hybridization recorded with A. gibberifrons gracilis. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW and SE Australia, Tasmania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Female preening. Locality Lake Tabourie, New South Wales, Australia
Stephen Wallace 21 September 2010 36 weeks ago 20 sec 4.3 -
Male foraging on a creek bank. Head of female briefly visible. Locality Lake Tabourie, New South Wales, Australia
Stephen Wallace 20 September 2010 1 year ago 19 sec 4.3 -
A male swimming Locality Beachmere, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 21 July 2007 3 years ago 19 sec 4.3 -
Several ducklings swimming up to a sandbank and running across it to join their mother Locality Westgate Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 6 October 2007 4 years ago 5 sec 3.9 -
A male swimming and feeding on the water. Locality Shortland Wetlands, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 30 September 2005 2 years ago 37 sec 3.6 -
A pair on a post, the female displaying Locality Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Philip Griffin 25 December 2004 6 years ago 27 sec 3.6
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Chestnut teal, male.
Locality Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 5 December 2011 4 weeks ago 4.6 -
male and female together on lagoon
Locality Port of Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 7 weeks ago 4.2 -
A male on the water.
Locality Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 18 September 2011 17 weeks ago 4 -
A female roosting and stretching a wing beside a male Hardhead.
Locality Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 31 July 2011 26 weeks ago 3.9 -
Adult male bird
Locality Port of Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 November 2011 7 weeks ago 3.8 -
A female on the water.
Locality Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 18 September 2011 17 weeks ago 3.8
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