Conservation status: Nationally critical (DoC)

• The Campbell Island teal is the rarest duck in the world.
• Campbell Island teal were once thought to have inhabited the Campbell Island group. Now, birds survive on a tiny, remote "rock" in the sub Antarctic, called Dent Island.
• The Campbell Island teal is a small dark brown duck. A subspecies of the brown teal, the Campbell Island teal is flightless with a habit of running rapidly along the ground. Very few people have ever seen this bird in the wild.
• They are mainly nocturnal, and are very secretive.

• Although they are flightless they make very good speed by running rapidly across the ground at the first sign of danger.
• There are only about 60 Campbell Island Flightless Teal remaining in the wild, although numbers are slowly increasing through intensive captive breeding efforts.