Yellow-Billed Pintail

Description:

Spotted this lovely Yellow-Billed Pintail in a small pond along RS Galdeano Street, Ushuaia, Argentina.

Habitat:

Small pond along RS Galdeano Street, Ushuaia, Argentina.

Notes:

One of the common ducks of the Southern Cone, the Yellow-billed Pintail is widely distributed from sea level up into the mountains of South America, primarily in the Southern Cone but also north along the Andes. This is a puddle duck which "tips up" to feed just below the surface of freshwater bodies, though it dives occasionally as well. Two subspecies are currently extant, one (A. g. spinicauda) is the common subspecies of mainland South America and the other (A. g. georgica) is endemic to South Georgia; a third (A. g. nicefori) formerly lived in Colombia prior to its extinction. The Yellow-billed Pintail is largely pale warm brown with a bright yellow bill; structurally it is slim with a long, elegant neck. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Neotropical Birds http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/por...