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English Northern Pintail
Scientific (Anas acuta)
Order ANSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Anatidae
Family (English) Ducks, Geese, Swans
Other name(s) Canard pilet, Pintail
Breeding Regions NA, PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions MA, OR and AF
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh, Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cayman Islands,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Colombia,Cook Islands,Costa Rica, Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt, El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia, Germany,Ghana,Greece,Greenland,Grenada,Guam,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Haiti, Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,Iceland,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland, Israel,Ivory Coast,Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kiribati,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan, Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malaysia, Maldives,Mali,Malta,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mexico,Micronesia,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro, Morocco,Myanmar,Nepal,Netherlands,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway, Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Palestine,Papua New Guinea,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar, Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia, Somalia,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan, Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Spießente
French Canard pilet
Chinese 针尾鸭
Japanese オナガガモ
Russian Шилохвость
Spanish Ánade rabudo norteño
Portuguese arrabio-comum
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)