Between the river mouth and the River Witham, a large expanse of saltmarsh provides breeding grounds for Common Redshank, Eurasian Oystercatcher and Reed Bunting in the summer, and Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Common Shelduck and Common Teal in the winter.

The estuary is important as a breeding, roosting and wintering site for many waterfowl and other birds, including woodpeckers, Nightingale, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, European Wigeon, Common Shelduck, Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Grey Plover, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Dunlin and Black-tailed Godwit.

The Eurasian Teal or Common Teal ( Anas crecca ) is a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Eurasia and migrates south in winter.

The Eurasian Teal is often called simply the Teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range.

Eurasian Teal ( A. crecca ), drake in nuptial plumage ( note horizontal white stripe from shoulder )

The Eurasian Teal belongs to the " true " teals, a group of small Anas dabbling ducks closely related to the Mallard ( A. platyrhynchos ) and its relatives ; that latter group in fact seems to have evolved from a true teal.

The Eurasian Teal was first scientifically named by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 edition of Systema naturae.

Thus, the scientific name of the Eurasian Teal – unchanged since Linnaeus ' time – translates as " duck that makes cryc "; common names like the Bokmål krikkand, Danish krikand and German Krickente mean the same.

The Eurasian Teal breeds across northern Eurasia and mostly winters well south of its breeding range.

Altogether, the Eurasian Teal is much less common than its American counterpart, though still very plentiful.

The IUCN and BirdLife International classify the Eurasian Teal as a Species of Least Concern, unchanged from their assessment before the split of the more numerous A. carolinensis.

The Eurasian Teal is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

The Eurasian Teal usually feeds by dabbling, upending or grazing ; it may submerge its head and on occasion even dive to reach food.

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Birds found in Hokersar — Migratory ducks and geese which include Brahminy Duck, Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Garganey, Greylag Goose, Mallard, Common Merganser, Northern Pintail, Common Pochard, Ferruginous Pochard, Red-crested Pochard, Ruddy Shelduck, Northern Shoveler, Common Teal, and Eurasian Wigeon.

" They are best suited for small quarry such as Common Starlings and Common Blackbirds but are also capable of taking Common Teal, Eurasian Magpies, pheasants and partridges.

Other common species include the Barrow's Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Wigeon, Gadwall, Mallard, Common Scoter, Long-tailed duck and Eurasian Teal.

Other water birds in the area include Spot-billed Pelican, seven species of herons and egrets, Painted Stork, Greater Flamingos, ducks, 20 species of shorebirds, gulls, terns, Little Grebe, Indian Cormorant, Little Cormorant, Asian Openbill Stork, Black-headed Ibis, Eurasian Spoonbill, Lesser Whistling Teal, Spotbill Duck, Great Thick-knee and Stone Curlew.

Several species of wintering waterfowl have been noted including Bar-headed Goose, Ruddy Shelduck, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Common Teal, Northern Pintail, Garganey, Northern Shoveler, Common Pochard, Brown-headed Gull, Black-headed Gull, Whiskered Tern, Gull-billed Tern and Caspian Tern.

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Birds such as Eurasian Wigeon and Common Teal also roost.

It is also an observer member of the Eurasian Economic Community and the Non-Aligned Movement.

The area is a summering place for a number of migratory birds including Brent geese, Eurasian Wigeons, and the pintails of California.

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

Unlike the related gray wolf, which is Eurasian in origin, evolutionary theory suggests the coyote evolved in North America during the Pleistocene epoch 1. 81 million years ago ( mya ) alongside the dire wolf.

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

Another example is the strongly oblique convergent plate boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian plates where it runs through the northwestern part of the Zagros mountains.

The island is home to an endemic subspecies of Eurasian Wren, the Fair Isle Wren Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis.

, the Indian Plate is moving northeast at 5 cm / yr ( 2 in / yr ), while the Eurasian Plate is moving north at only 2 cm / yr ( 0. 8 in / yr ).

This is causing the Eurasian Plate to deform, and the Indian Plate to compress at a rate of 4 mm / yr ( 0. 15 in / yr ).

It originates as a dry continental mass of polar air that is warmed as it passes over the Eurasian landmass.

The descent of the Kyrgyz from the autochthonous Siberian population is confirmed on the other hand by the recent genetic studies ( The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity ).

The country's climate is influenced chiefly by the mountains, Kyrgyzstan's position near the middle of the Eurasian landmass, and the absence of any body of water large enough to influence weather patterns.

It is also known as the European Kestrel, Eurasian Kestrel, or Old World Kestrel.

Krakatoa is directly above the subduction zone of the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate where the plate boundaries make a sharp change of direction, possibly resulting in an unusually weak crust in the region.

This could be the result of koi being bred from a mix of East Asian and Western Eurasian carp varieties, or being bred exclusively from East Asian varieties and being subsequently hybridized with Western Eurasian varieties ( the butterfly koi is one known product of such a cross ).

The smallest species are the bobcat and the Canada lynx, while the largest is the Eurasian lynx, with considerable variations within species.

Murat Ses ( Ses means sound or voice in Turkish ) ( born 1946, Bayrakli, Izmir, Turkey ) is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements.

The moose ( North America ) or Eurasian elk ( Europe ) ( Alces alces ) is the largest extant species in the deer family.

This is most likely the time at which the species migrated from the Eurasian continent to North America.

At the other extreme, the slowest-moving plate is the Eurasian Plate, progressing at a typical rate of about 21 mm / yr ( 0. 8 in / yr ).

The Philippine Archipelago is geologically part of the Philippine Mobile Belt located between the Philippine Sea Plate, the South China Sea Basin of the Eurasian Plate, and the Sunda Plate.