Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea)
About the Chestnut Teal
The chestnut teal (Anas castanea) is a dabbling duck found in Australia. It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. The chestnut teal was described by the English naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton in 1838 under the binomial name Mareca castanea. The specific epithet castanea is from the Latin castaneus for "chestnut-coloured" or "chestnut-brown". A large molecular phylogentic study that compared mitochondrial DNA sequences from ducks, geese and swans in the family Anatidae found that the chestnut teal is a sister species to the Sunda teal (Anas gibberifrons) that is endemic to Indonesia. The chestnut teal is darker and a slightly bigger bird than the grey teal.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 8 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Australia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Eurasian TealAnas creccarecording
- Green-winged TealAnas carolinensisrecording
- Indian Spot-billed DuckAnas poecilorhyncharecording
- MallardAnas platyrhynchosrecording
- Northern PintailAnas acutarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.