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Teal

Is it a bird? Is it a colour? Yes! It’s teal

This beautiful dark blue-green gets its name from a duck’s plumage. The dabbling duck we call a common teal (officially, it’s an Anas Crecca) gets its name from the 13th century German word for a ‘brood’ or ‘flock’. The web-footed waterfowl have distinctive blue-green patches around their eyes, which is how the colour teal earned …

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