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Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)

Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)
Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)

About Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Anseriformes
  • Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks

The blue-billed teal, spotted teal or Hottentot teal is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Spatula. It is migratory resident in eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria and south to South Africa and Namibia. In west Africa and Madagascar it is sedentary.

Lifelists

Visits

  • 2001-06-21

    Southern Africa, South Africa
  • 2013-11-01

    Kalokol, Kenya
    Image from 2013-11-01
  • 2017-11-01

    Toliara, Madagascar
  • 2017-11-21

    Ankarafantsika Nature Reserve, Madagascar