The Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) in Florida

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—The Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) comprises five subspecies that inhabit a variety of habitats along an elevational gradient at temperate and tropical latitudes. North American and South American subspecies differ in their migratory behavior, which may have contributed to differences in body size. We measured body size of the five recognized subspecies (A. c. cyanoptera, A. c. orinomus, A. c...

Color Divergence among Cinnamon Teal (anas Cyanoptera) Subspecies from North America and South America

Divergencia de coloración en las subespecies del Pato Colorado (Anas cyanoptera) de Norteamérica y Sudamérica.

Specimen Shrinkage in Cinnamon Teal

—Body size measurements from freshly collected birds and dried museum specimens were used to evaluate specimen shrinkage in Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera). Six of seven body measurements of female Cinnamon Teal differed significantly after specimen drying, whereas five of seven male body measurements differed. The largest amount of shrinkage was in bill height, bill width, and tarsus length. B...

Taxonomic status of the brown teal (Anas chlorotis) in Fiordland

Mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequence data were used to examine the taxonomic status of the endemic brown, Auckland Island, and Campbell Island teal. Based on phylogenetic reconstructions using the 12S rRNA data we have found that the Great Barrier Island brown teal, and the Auckland and Campbell Island teals form a discrete clade, to the exclusion of the Fiordland brown teal. All of the Fiordland br...

Genetic analysis of brown teal (Anas chlorotis) from Fiordland