Northern Pintail Images

Northern Pintail Images, Facts and Information:

Anas acuta

• Northern Pintails are large, long necked, dabbling ducks. Male Northern Pintails have gray and black upperparts, white necks and underparts, gray sides, and long, black pointed tails. They also have brown heads, throats and napes with a distinctive white stripe dividing the front and back of their necks.  Their bills are slender and gray. Females are mottled gray-brown with gray wings, brown heads, and dark gray bills.
• Northern Pintails are migratory in most of their range, in some locations they are year round residents. Northern Pintails breed from Alaska and Labrador south to California, northern Texas and Maine. They spend winters along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in southern and southwestern states, the West Indies and Mexico.
• Northern Pintails eat grains, aquatic plant seeds, pond weeds, aquatic insects, snails and crustaceans.
• Northern Pintails lay 3 to 12 eggs which hatch in 22 to 25 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of ducks can be called a “raft”, “paddling”, “flush” or “brace” of ducks.
• Northern Pintails have been nicknamed pintail, sprigtail, sprig, spike, and spiketail.
• Northern Pintails can live to be more than 22 years of age.

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