White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)

Other Names (World)
White-cheeked Pintail, Bahama Pintail, Bahama Duck, Galapagos Pintail (galapagensis)

Family
Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

Size
41 - 50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1758

Habitat
Inland wetlands, including marshes, swamps, bogs, fens and peatlands. Also freshwater lakes, saltmarshes and coastal inshore waters. From sea-level to 2,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (B) (NB), USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Jamaica, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is 180,000 - 1,100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis) [XC580874]
by Alex Lees from Humedal Rio Lluta, Chile (flight call)

White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis) [XC691736]
by Ignacio Escobar from Talcahuano, Concepcion, B\u00edo B\u00edo, Chile (duet, flight call)

Subspecies
Considered by some to form superspecies with Red-billed Teal (Anas erythrorhyncha).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

bahamensis Linnaeus, 1758 - West Indies, northern South America to northern Brazil.
rubrirostris Vieillot, 1816 - Eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil to northern Argentina and Uruguay.
galapagensis (Ridgway, 1890) - Galapagos Is.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis) - 10 files

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