White-cheeked Pintail
Anas bahamensis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 5,458
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-cheeked pintail”.