Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
About the Northern Pintail
The pintail or northern pintail (Anas acuta) is a duck species with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and North America. It is migratory and winters south of its breeding range as far as the equator. Unusually for a bird with such a large range, it has no geographical subspecies, although the possibly conspecific duck Eaton's pintail is considered to be a separate species.
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3 recordings on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×2 · CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 333 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.