Cinnamon Teal Ducks

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Cinnamon Teal Ducks
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Copyright: Tom Peak (tkp1165) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 107 W: 2 N: 296] (1899)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-07
Categories: Birds
Camera: Nikon D 80, Sigma 50-500mm f4-6.3 DG EX APO HSM
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/400 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): CeltickRanger's favorite Anatidae photos [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-05-08 15:03
Viewed: 173
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This was taken at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge this morning.

Description: Male cinnamon teal have a cinnamon-red head, neck, breast, and belly. They have an iridescent green speculum, which is separated from a bluish shoulder patch by a white stripe. The back, rump, uppertail coverts, and tail are a dull brown and the undertail coverts are black. They have a distinctive red eye, a black bill and yellow legs and feet. The male gives a thin whistled "peep" or "peer." Female cinnamon teal are often confused with female blue-winged teal. They have a duller blue shoulder patch, an overall rustier color, and are more heavily streaked. Female Cinnamon teal have a somewhat more guttural quacking than female blue-winged teal.

Breeding: The majority of cinnamon teal breed in the western USA near the Great Salt Lake, Malheur Basin, San Luis Valley, and Cariboo-Chilcotin parklands. They prefer small, shallow alkaline wetlands surrounded by low herbaceous cover. Nests are often located in grassy areas and island nesting is common. Female cinnamon teal lay an average of 8 to 10 eggs.

Migrating and Wintering: Nearly all cinnamon teal winter in Mexico and Central America. During migration the Great Salt Lake marshes and the Central Valley of California are important staging areas. Cinnamon teal are commonly sighted in the midwestern and eastern USA, and are often associated with a flock of blue-winged teal, most likely attaching themselves to the flock on their mutual breeding grounds. Cinnamon teal are common winter visitors to Central America; resident (two endemic subspecies) and occasional winter visitor in Colombia and Venezuela. They are common and widespread in the Andes from central Peru southwards, and in southern Chile and most of Argentina. (Scott and Carbonell, 1986)

Population: A. c. cyanoptera (SE Neotropics) 25,000-100,000; A. c. orinomus (SW Neotropics) 10,000-100,000; A. c. septentrianalium (Central America) 300,000; A.c. tropica (Low Colombia)
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Hello Tom,
very nice colorfull shot
perfect focus and lovely composition,
cheer,
friendly,
Pat

Gosh you get in tight! What an unusual angel you had as well...and clear colours....it shows them as they are and well should be eh? I kind of like the place you get these images...but now I am making new discoveries over here...and so my summer shall be busy...and my Oly kid will be home soon..and my Son and wife and grandkids in Renton are thinking of opening a clinic here...I may be well buried here in my wilderness....I would enjoy thinking of that.....not of being gone of course...but of being where my heart and spirit are!
Bob

Love the composition and vibrant colors here! Nice details and what really gets me is how one has his back to you while the other looks at you out of the corner of his eye. Great!

hello Tom

you did a wonderful and beautiful colourful shot of these ducks,
fine POV and DOF, great sharpness and details,
i love that each duck is occupied to do something,
i love your POV showing from its back the wonderful
details of plumage of the one open closing his wings,

TFS

Asbed

Great composition on this shot Tom. Love the way you captured the one who looks as if he is conducting and orchestra.
Wonderful lighting and the colours are beautiful. Very natural setting!
Ron

  • Great 
  • darwin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 184 W: 0 N: 307] (1234)
  • [2008-05-08 21:09]

Hi Tom
Wonderful capture and composition
Lovely light and color
tfs jon

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  • Art_R Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 68 W: 4 N: 157] (574)
  • [2008-05-08 21:41]

HI Tom , very nice photograph , such a great view of the wings , very nice color and composition .TFS

Regards

Art

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  • thor68 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 717 W: 116 N: 1019] (4527)
  • [2008-05-08 22:22]

excellent capture showing us both male and female of these pretty ducks! :-) nice natural composition with some great poses and
lovely details. the colors of the male are great. well done & best wishes, thor.

nice capture, I like how the positioning of the ducks and the the fact that one is flapping her wings, the male is very colorful

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  • demeve Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 480 W: 8 N: 886] (3276)
  • [2008-05-09 22:28]

Hello Tom,

You actually froze time, great capture.
Composition is superb, great sharpness and the colors
of the teals are very beautiful... Well done

Everton

Hello Tom,
Great capture of this lovely couple, exellent composition, good point of v iew and great timing, beautiful vivid colors, superb sharpness, good light and nice details, very nice movement in the water.
Angela

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