Cinnamon Teal Mounts | Texas Waterfowl Taxidermy

Cypress Slough Taxidermy is your premier duck taxidermist in the state of Texas. Cypress Slough Taxidermy offers a variety of custom Cinnamon Teal Mounts and other waterfowl species. Whether your hunting in your home state or coming to Texas, Cypress Slough Taxidermy is ready to mount your trophy Cinnamon Teal or other waterfowl species. Contact CS Taxidermy to discuss your custom Cinnamon Teal Mount pose and habitat design to create a true one of a kind piece.

The Cinnamon Teal Mounting Process

Cypress Slough Taxidermy’s Cinnamon Teal mounts and other waterfowl pieces are of the highest quality. We meticulously clean and flesh each bird prior to mounting, then individually move each feather into position so that the bird is posed in a natural position. All duck legs and feet are injected to give them a natural lifelike appearance.

Cinnamon Teal Mounts: Preparing Waterfowl For Your Duck Mount

Even more than big game, ducks, geese, and upland birds require careful handling and storage if you want to preserve them for taxidermy work. Delicate feathers and bones can crease and break much more easily than hair or hardened antler.

After shooting DO NOT ring the duck’s neck. DO NOT gut or pluck any feathers. Either tuck the head under a wing or lay it over the back. Keep out of sunlight and in a freezer bag (keep a freezer bag with you in the field just in case). Freeze as soon as possible. Broken bones are fixable but missing or broken feather are not so keep the duck where it will stay untouched until you get it frozen.

If storing in a freezer for long periods, wrap the legs and head in wet paper towel to prevent freezer burn.

Nylon stockings are good for transport from the field only, NOT for storage since they don’t prevent freezer burn.

About The Cinnamon Teal

Male cinnamon teal have a cinnamon-red head, neck, breast and belly. They have an iridescent green speculum, which is separated from a bluish shoulder patch by a white stripe. The back, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail are a dull brown and the undertail coverts are black. They have a distinctive red eye, a black bill, and yellow legs and feet. Female cinnamon teal is often confused with female blue-winged teal. They have a duller blue shoulder patch, an overall rustier color and are more heavily streaked.

Cinnamon Teal Migration

Nearly all cinnamon teal winter in Mexico and Central America. During migration, the Great Salt Lake marshes and the Central Valley of California are important staging areas. Cinnamon teal is commonly sighted in the Midwest and the eastern United States, and are often associated with a flock of blue-winged teal, most likely attaching themselves to the flock on their mutual breeding grounds. Cinnamon teal are common winter visitors to Central America; resident (two endemic subspecies) and occasional winter visitors in Colombia and Venezuela. They are common and widespread in the Andes from central Peru southwards, and in southern Chile and most of Argentina (Scott and Carbonell, 1986).