Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)
About the Blue-billed Teal
The blue-billed teal (Spatula hottentota), also sometimes called spotted teal and formerly Hottentot teal, is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Spatula. It is resident in eastern, southern, and western Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria, and south to South Africa and Namibia, and also in Madagascar. It is generally sedentary, but shows nomadic behaviour in response to water requirements, moving away if drought causes wetlands to dry out.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 3 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Tanzania in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Blue-winged TealSpatula discorsrecording
- GarganeySpatula querquedularecording
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeatarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.