White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
About the White-cheeked Pintail
The white-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis), also known as the Bahama pintail, Bahama duck, or Galápagos duck is a species of dabbling duck that is patchily distributed throughout South America and the Caribbean. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae under its current scientific name. The white-cheeked pintail was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Anas bahamensis. Linnaeus based his account on the "Ilathera duck" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in the first volume of his book The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands that was published between 1729 and 1732.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 14 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Eurasian TealAnas creccarecording
- Green-winged TealAnas carolinensisrecording
- Indian Spot-billed DuckAnas poecilorhyncharecording
- MallardAnas platyrhynchosrecording
- Northern PintailAnas acutarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.