Common [Eurasian Green-winged] Teal (Anas crecca crecca), Dryden, Tompkins County, NY. 5 March 2004.
All photographs © Kevin and Jay McGowan, unless otherwise noted.
Most photographs taken with an Olympus D-40 digital camera through a Swarovski AT-80 spotting scope.
On the right. Note the horizontal, not vertical white line along the side.
Despite the distance, a whitish line can be seen on the flank, just in front of the black border of the yellowish rump patch.
It sometimes hid its white stripe.
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