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Ian Fulton | profile | all galleries >> African Galleries >> Madagascar 2005 & 2012 >> Madagascar - Birds >> Madagascar Birds-Individual Species Galleries >> Bernier's Teal or Madagascar Teal tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

African Stonechat | Appert's Tetraka (or Greenbul) | Archbold's Newtonia | Ashy (or Madagascar) Cuckoo-shrike | Benson's Rock-Thrush | Bernier's Teal or Madagascar Teal | Black Egret | Black-crowned Night Heron | Blue Coua | Blue Vanga | Broad-billed Roller | Cattle Egret | Chabert Vanga | Collared Nightjar | Crested Coua | Crested Drongo | Crossley's Babbler | Cuckoo Roller | Dimorphic Egret | Frances's Sparrowhawk | Giant Coua | Great White Egret | Green-capped Coua | Grey-headed Lovebird | Hook-billed Vanga | Humblot's Heron | Kittlitz's Plover | Lesser Vasa Parrot | Littoral Rock-Thrush | Long-tailed Ground-Roller | Mascerene Martin | Madagascar Brush Warbler | Madagascar Bulbul | Madagascar Button-Quail | Madagascar Buzzard | Madagascar Cisticola | Madagascar Coucal | Madagascar Fody | Madagascar Green Pigeon | Madagascar Hoopoe | Madagascar Kestrel | Madagascar Kingfisher | Madagascar Lark | Madagascar Little Grebe | Madagascar Long-eared Owl | Madagascar Magpie Robin | Madagascar Nightjar | Madagascar Paradise Flycatcher | Madagascar Partridge | Madagascar (or Black-banded) Plover | Madagascar Pratincole | Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher | Madagascar Sacred Ibis | Madagascar Squacco Heron (or Pond-heron) | Madagascar Scops Owl | Madagascar Swamp Warbler | Madagascar Wagtail | Meller's Duck | Namaqua Dove | Pitta-like Ground-Roller | Red-billed Teal | Red-capped Coua | Red-shouldered Vanga | Red-tailed Tropicbird | Red-tailed Vanga | Running Coua | Schlegel's Asity | Short-legged Ground-Roller | Sickle-billed Vanga | Souimanga Sunbird | Sub-desert Brush-Warbler | Sub-desert Mesite | Thamnornis Warbler | White-breasted Mesite | White-browed Owl | White-faced Whistling-Duck | White-fronted Plover | White-headed Vanga

Bernier's Teal or Madagascar Teal

(anas bernieri)
The Bernier's Teal or Madagascar Teal is endemic to Madagascar. It is found in scattered locations on the west coast of the island where it favours freshwater or brackish lakes and especially coastal mangroves.
Currently the Bernier's Teal (or Madagascar Teal) is on the verge of extinction and is classified as 'endangered' as there are only about 1500 left in the world. The reason these ducks are so endangered is because their natural habitat, mangrove forests are being destroyed for timber and fuel. The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust has been undergoing a successful breeding program since 1995.The name commemorates the French surgeon Chevalier J A Bernier.
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar		 Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar		 Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar		 Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar		 Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar		 Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar
Bernier's Teal, Betsiboka Estuary, Madagascar

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