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Pintail (ducks)
Pintail may refer to: Animals Dabbling ducks * Northern pintail (''Anas acuta''), sometimes called the pintail, the most common pintail species * White-cheeked pintail (''Anas bahamensis''), from the Caribbean, South America and the Galápagos * Yellow-billed pintail (''Anas georgica''), found from southern Colombia to South Georgia * South Georgia pintail (''Anas georgica georgica''), the nominate race of the yellow-billed pintail * Eaton's pintail (''Anas eatoni''), from the islands of Kerguelen and Crozet Other animals * Pin-tailed snipe (''Gallinago stenura''), a small stocky wader *''Acisoma'', a genus of dragonflies Other uses * Fairey Pintail The Fairey Pintail was a British single-engine floatplane fighter of the 1920s. While it was developed by Fairey as a reconnaissance fighter for the Royal Air Force, the only orders placed were for three for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Design ..., a British single-engined floatplane fighter * Haynes Pintail canard-configuration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Pintail
The pintail or northern pintail (''Anas acuta'') is a duck species with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and North America. It is migratory and winters south of its breeding range to the equator. Unusually for a bird with such a large range, it has no geographical subspecies if the possibly conspecific duck Eaton's pintail is considered to be a separate species. This is a large duck, and the male's long central tail feathers give rise to the species' English and scientific names. Both sexes have blue-grey bills and grey legs and feet. The drake is more striking, having a thin white stripe running from the back of its chocolate-coloured head down its neck to its mostly white undercarriage. The drake also has attractive grey, brown, and black patterning on its back and sides. The hen's plumage is more subtle and subdued, with drab brown feathers similar to those of other female dabbling ducks. Hens make a coarse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-cheeked Pintail
The white-cheeked pintail (''Anas bahamensis''), also known as the Bahama pintail or summer duck, is a species of dabbling duck. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' under its current scientific name. Distribution and habitat It is found in the Caribbean, South America, and the Galápagos Islands. It occurs on waters with some salinity, such as brackish lakes, estuaries and mangrove swamps. There are three subspecies: * ''A. b. bahamensis''—lesser Bahama pintail—in the Caribbean, and a vagrant to southern Florida * ''A. b. rubirostris''—greater Bahama pintail—in South America; it may be partly migratory, breeding in Argentina and wintering further north. * ''A. b. galapagensis''—Galápagos pintail—in the Galápagos Islands Description Like many southern ducks, the sexes are similar. It is mainly brown with white cheeks and a red-based grey bill (young birds lack the pink). It cannot be confused with any o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow-billed Pintail
The yellow-billed pintail (''Anas georgica'') is a South American dabbling duck of the genus ''Anas'' with three described subspecies. Taxonomy The yellow-billed pintail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the ducks, geese and swans in the genus '' Anas'' and coined the binomial name ''Anas georgica''. Gmelin based his description on the "Georgia duck" that had been described in 1785 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his ''A General Synopsis of Birds''. The naturalist Joseph Banks had provided Latham with a water-colour drawing of the duck by Georg Forster who had accompanied James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean. The watercolour was painted in 1775 on South Georgia. This picture is now the holotype for the species and is held by the Natural History Museum in London. The genus name ''Anas'' is the Latin wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Georgia Pintail
The South Georgia pintail (''Anas georgica georgica''), also misleadingly known as the South Georgian teal, is the nominate subspecies of the yellow-billed pintail (''Anas georgica''), a duck in the dabbling duck subfamily Anatinae. It is endemic to the large (3,756 km2) subantarctic island of South Georgia and its accompanying archipelago, and is a vagrant to the South Sandwich Islands. It was among the birds noted by James Cook in January 1775, on the occasion of the first recorded landing on South Georgia, and was formerly considered a full species. Taxonomy The duck has long been recognised as a distinct taxon, with its affinities previously considered to be with the teals. Robert Cushman Murphy was the first to demonstrate that it is a pintail, its closest relatives the yellow-billed pintails of South America (now split as the Chilean pintail ''A. g. spinicauda'' and the extinct Niceforo's pintail ''A. g. niceforoi''),Murphy (1916). though he retained it as a full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eaton's Pintail
Eaton's pintail (''Anas eatoni'') is a dabbling duck of the genus ''Anas''. It is also known as the southern pintail. The species is restricted to the island groups of Kerguelen and Crozet in the southern Indian Ocean. It resembles a small female northern pintail. It was named after the English explorer and naturalist Alfred Edmund Eaton. It is threatened by introduced species, particularly feral cats, which prey Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the ... on it. There are two subspecies: ''A. eatoni eatoni'' (Kerguelen pintail) and ''A. eatoni drygalskii'' (Crozet pintail). References External links BirdLife Species Factsheet Eaton's pintail Birds of the Indian Ocean Birds of subantarctic islands Fauna of the Crozet Islands Fauna of the Kerguelen Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pin-tailed Snipe
Pintail snipe head and bill The pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe (''Gallinago stenura'') is a species of bird in the family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers. Distribution It breeds in northern Russia and migrates to spend the non-breeding season in southern Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia. It is the most common migrant snipe in southern India, Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It is a vagrant to north-western and northern Australia, and to Kenya in East Africa. Habitat Its breeding habitat is damp marshes and tundra in Arctic and boreal Russia. Birds in their non-breeding range use a variety of wetlands, often with common snipe, but may be found also in drier habitats than their relative. They nest in a well-hidden location on the ground. These birds forage in mud or soft soil, probing or picking up food by sight. They mainly eat insects and earthworms, but also some plant material. Description This 25–27 cm long bird is similar to the longer-billed and longer-tailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acisoma
''Acisoma'' is a small genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae The skimmers or perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest dragonfly family in the world. It is sometimes considered to contain the Corduliidae as the subfamily Corduliinae and the Macromiidae as the subfamily Macromiinae. Ev .... Species It contains six species: References External links * * Libellulidae Taxa named by Jules Pierre Rambur Anisoptera genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Libellulidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairey Pintail
The Fairey Pintail was a British single-engine floatplane fighter of the 1920s. While it was developed by Fairey as a reconnaissance fighter for the Royal Air Force, the only orders placed were for three for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Design and development The Pintail was designed by F. Duncanson of Fairey Aviation to meet the requirements of the RAF Type XXI Specification, which was issued in 1919 for an amphibian reconnaissance fighter, competing with the Parnall Puffin.Taylor 1974, p. 90. The Pintail was a two-bay biplane, fitted with twin floats, and with the upper wing in line with the pilot's eye line. In order to give a clear upwards field of view for the crew, the Pintail was fitted with an unusual tail unit, with the tailplane lying across the top of the rear fuselage and the rudder below the tailplane. The first prototype, the Pintail Mark I, flew on 7 July 1920. The second prototype, the Pintail Mark II had a lengthened fuselage, while the third prototype, the Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haynes Pintail
The Waspair HM 81 Tomcat is a British canard ultralight aircraft of unusual design, that was produced by Waspair and later Midwest Microlites. The designer is disputed and Chip Erwin, Larry Whiting and Robin Haynes are all named as designers. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page E-28 and E-41. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. Design and development The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a high-wing supported by dihedral stabilizers, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. The aircraft structure is made from aluminum tubing. Its span wing sits high above the pilot's seat, providing pendulum stability. The controls are very unconventional and all are canard mounted, which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pintail Island
Pintail Island is one of the uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada. It is located at the mouth of Chesterfield Inlet. The island is approximately from the Inuit hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet Chesterfield Inlet (Inuit: ''Igluligaarjuk'')Issenman, Betty. ''Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing''. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is an inlet in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is an arm of northwestern Hudson Bay, and the .... References Islands of Chesterfield Inlet Uninhabited islands of Kivalliq Region {{KivalliqNU-island-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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