WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Anas discors | Blue-Winged Teal 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The blue-winged teal breeds from east-central Alaska and southern
Mackenzie District east to southern Quebec and southwestern
Newfoundland.  In the contiguous United States it breeds from northeast
California east to central Louisiana, central Tennessee, and the
Atlantic Coast [4,10].  The western blue-winged teal inhabits that part
of the breeding range west of the Appalachian Mountains.  The Atlantic
blue-winged teal nests along the Atlantic Coast from New Brunswick to
Pea Island, North Carolina [1].

The blue-winged teal winters from southern California to western and
southern Texas, the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic Coast and south to
Central and South America.  It is often seen wintering as far south as
Brazil and central Chile [4,11,16].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA
    
HI


    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA


    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ
    
SD


    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K105  Mangrove
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    38  Tamarack
    63  Cottonwood
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    95  Black willow
   106  Mangrove
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   217  Aspen
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch
   252  Paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The blue-winged teal is primarily found in the northern prairies and
parklands.  It is the most abundant duck in the mixed-grass prairies of
the Dakotas and the prairie provinces of Canada.  The blue-winged teal
is also found in wetlands of boreal forest associations, shortgrass
prairies, tallgrass prairies, and deciduous woodlands [1].

This duck commonly inhabits wetland communities dominated by bulrush
(Scirpus spp.), cattail (Typha spp.), pondweed (Potamogeton spp.),
sedges (Carex spp.), widgeongrass (Ruppia maritima), and other emergent
and aquatic vegetation [1,2,8,17].  During molting, it often remains
among extensive beds of bulrushes and cattails.  The blue-winged teal
favors areas dominated by bluegrass (Poa spp.) for nesting.  Hayfields
and plant communities of buckbrush (Ceonothus cuneatus) and sedges are
also important as nest sites [1].  In the winter, blue-winged teal often
inhabits mangrove (Rhizophora spp.) swamps [14].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Anas discors | Blue-Winged Teal