My buddy Matt and I snuck away from our cruise ship group on a layover in Ushuaia, Argentina to look for some birds while we waited for our flight. These Yellow-billed Teals where quite far off but the bill color is diagnostic. They inhabit lakes and other bodies of water at the very southern end of South America as well as some offshore islands like the Falklands. Interestingly, although they look very different from Green-winged Teals, that is the species they are most closely related to genetically.
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