What is Eurasian teal?
{{Speciesbox |image=Eurasian teal (Anas crecca) Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg |image_caption=Wintering male from Mangaon, Maharashtra, India [[File: Eurasian Teal (Anas crecca) (W1CDR0001378 BD3).ogg|thumb|center|Calls of Eurasian teals]] |status=LC |status_system=IUCN3.1 |status_ref=<ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |title=Common Teal: ''Anas crecca'' |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International | page=e.T22680321A181692388 |year=2020 |access-date=11 December 2020}}</ref> |genus=Anas |species=crecca |authority=[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]] |range_map=Anas crecca distribution map.png |range_map_caption=Distribution map<br>light green : nesting area<br>blue : wintering area<br>dark green : resident all year |synonyms= ''Anas crecca crecca'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]</small><br /> ''Anas crecca nimia'' <small>[[Herbert Friedmann|Friedmann]], 1948</small> }} [[File:Anas crecca MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.18.3.jpg|thumb| ''Anas crecca'']] The '''Eurasian teal''',<ref>Madge S. & Burn H. 1987. ''Wildfowl, an identification guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world''. London: Christopher Helm. {{ISBN|0713636475}}</ref> '''common teal''', or '''Eurasian green-winged teal''' ('''''Anas crecca''''') is a [[duck]] that lives in Europe and Asia. It is the only kind of teal in most places. [[Teal (color)|Teal]] is also the name of a color between blue and green. The bird has this color round its eyes. The teal mates where the weather is [[temperate]], but in winter it flies south to avoid the cold. When it is not starting a family, the teal likes to be with other teals. It often lives in places where the ground is very wet and the wind is usually not strong. It does not go under the water to find its food. Instead, it stays on top of the water and eats seeds and bugs that live in the water. Some scientists think that another kind of teal, the North American green-winged teal (''A. carolinensis''), is a kind of common