The green-winged teal (Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis), the smallest North American dabbling duck, a white-edged green speculum, obvious in flight or at rest. It is brown with a metallic green patch from the eye back to the crest and a white belly. It is distinguished from drake common teals (the Eurasian relative of this bird) by a vertical white stripe on the side of the breast, the lack of both a horizontal white scapular stripe and the lack of thin buff lines on its head. It is among the fastest fliers of the game birds, capable of flying 97 kph (60 mph) but usually flies 80 kph (50 mph).
