---
title: "Cyraneczka"
description: "Anas crecca — Ptaki. The Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/green-winged-teal
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cyraneczka

> Anas crecca — Ptaki. The Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter.

- Scientific name: *Anas crecca*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 127802
- Wikidata: [Q25700](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25700)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6937](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6937)

## Names

- en: Green-winged Teal
- de: Krickente
- es: Cerceta Alas Verdes
- fr: Sarcelle d'hiver
- nl: Wintertaling
- pt: Marrequinha-comum
- pl: Cyraneczka

## Countries with the most observations

US (42760), RU (12762), CA (12752), GB (6970), MX (3984), DE (3825), JP (3716), IT (3079), FR (2834), ES (2043), TW (2037), KR (1667)

## Summary

The Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia 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. The bird gives its name to the blue-green colour teal.
It is a highly gregarious duck outside the breeding season and can form large flocks. It is commonly found in sheltered wetlands and feeds on seeds and aquatic invertebrates. The North American green-winged teal (A. carolinensis) was formerly (and sometimes is still…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_teal

## Photo

![Cyraneczka](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/green-winged-teal/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67024246

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/green-winged-teal?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).