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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Salmon GREEN WINGED TEAL (3)
1931
thin roosting or resting places on
bits of sand and gravel at the edge
of the water.
They easily stacked around the
bends in the stream. They later become
very wary and their sense of hearing
becomes highly attuned to any
unusual sound for they rise in
quick rapid flight at the sound
of an incautious footstep when
one is still out of sight.