Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Pintail, Brown Pintail, Niceforo's Pintail (niceforoi), Chilean Pintail (spinicauda), South Georgian Teal (georgica), South Georgian Pintail (georgica)

Family
Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

Size
49 - 57 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gmelin, 1789

Habitat
Inland wetlands, including, marshes, swamps, bogs, fens and peatlands, Also frshwater lakes, coastal inshore water, subtropical and tropical lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland. From sea-level - 4,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (B), Uruguay (B).

Vagrant to Antarctica.

Population
Estimated population is 100,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) [XC686844]
by Ignacio Escobar from Mostardas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (song)

Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) [XC17054]
by Israel Aragon from Huasao wetland - Cusco, Peru (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Northern Pintail (Anas acuta). Subspecies niceforoi, described in 1946, considered to be extinct by 1956. Subspecies spinicauda sometimes considered full species.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

spinicauda Vieillot, 1816 - Extreme southern Colombia southwards to Tierra del Fuego, and eastwards to eastern Argentina; Falkland Is.
georgica Gmelin, 1789 - South Georgia.
niceforoi ! Wetmore & Borrero, 1946 - East-central Colombia. Extinct.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) - 10 files

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