cinnamon teal

American  

noun

1. a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.

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Etymology

Origin of cinnamon teal

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

They saw cinnamon teal and hummingbirds near the coast rather than inland, and western sandpipers and dunlins were switching to kelp flies on the beach instead of insects in a flooded meadow.

From National Geographic • Jul. 16, 2015

These include blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and northern pintails.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2011

To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cinnamon teal waddled onto the bank and preened its feathers.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The cinnamon teal, very commonly called the blue-winged teal by the sportsmen of the Coast, is only a late fall and early spring bird on our shooting grounds north of Lower California and Mexico.

From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom