Eaton's Pintail (Anas eatoni)
About the Eaton's Pintail
Eaton's pintail (Anas eatoni) is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas. It is also known as the southern pintail. The species is restricted to the island groups of Kerguelen and Crozet in the southern Indian Ocean. It resembles a small female northern pintail. It was named after the English explorer and naturalist Alfred Edwin Eaton. It is threatened by introduced species, particularly feral cats, which prey on it, particularly during the post-breeding molt, when it is unable to fly. While previously considered a subspecies of northern pintail, the Eaton's pintail is much smaller (one female Eaton's pintail weighed 450 g, while the mean mass of female northern pintails is 871 g) and the male Eaton's pintail is female-like in patterning, unlike the sexually dimorphic northern pintail.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 2 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 France 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.