Baikal Teal

The Baikal Teal is a compact dabbling duck, 39–43 centimetres long and averaging about 500 grams. A breeding drake is unmistakably patterned: green nape, dark crown, yellow-and-black face, spotted light-brown breast, grey flanks, and bold white vertical bars. The female resembles a female Green-winged Teal but has a longer tail, white throat, pale eyebrow, and a conspicuous white spot at the bill base. Juveniles resemble females, while eclipse males become a richer reddish brown. (Wikipedia, Baikal Teal account)

Baikal Teal breed in the forest zone of eastern Siberia, using pools at the tundra edge and within swampy woodland. They migrate south and east after breeding, wintering mainly on lowland fresh waters in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and eastern China. The species is a surface-feeding dabbling duck rather than a pursuit diver. The opened account establishes the seasonal habitat shift and broad migration but provides no dependable clutch, incubation, or detailed diet figures, so those measurements are deliberately omitted here. (Wikipedia, Baikal Teal account)