Common Teal is recorded as a Vagrant to Malaysia.............So far there is no photo record sighting in Peninsula but we hope for the best in coming years after the Comb duck was sighted last December 2016 in Byram Penang.
This winter visitor , from northern Europe and Eastern Siberia is common to reach India rather than SEA where they flock on sheltered wetlands, jheels, marshes. Largely vegetarian they look for grains, shoots of rice, marsh plants and aquatic invertebrates in thick muddy areas.
Male is penciled greyish, chestnut head, broad metallic green band running backward from eye to nape. Tri-colored wing - black, green and buff. Female is mottled dark, light brown, pale underparts, black and green supercilium.
Size wise it is small duck at 38 cm about the same as the commoner cotton pygmy.
My take was in Kyoto Japan while holidaying in the month of December 2016
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