Showing posts with label pintail. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

NORTHERN PINTAIL

Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, march 2017
(*  943)             NORTHERN PINTAIL                  Anas acuta

NEPAL            97

Forages by night and early morning and evening in marshes and flooded paddy fields, roosts by day on open waters with aquatic vegetation. 51-56 cm. Passage migrant and winter visitor.





















Friday, December 16, 2016

NORTHERN PINTAIL

Photographed on Cocos Islands December 2016
943           NORTHERN PINTAIL          Anas acuta

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Islands)           670

Found in coastal wetlands, farmlands, reservoirs. 50-65 cm. Breeds Eurasia, North America; migrates to Africa, China, Central America. First record in Australia, Chandala Swamp, NE of Perth, WA 1985, other records since.