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The white-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis), also known as the Bahama pintail or summer duck, is a species of dabbling duck that is spottily 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.
A. b. bahamensis Linnaeus 1758 (lesser white-cheeked pintail) A. b. rubrirostris Vieillot 1816 (greater white-cheeked pintail) Anas erythrorhyncha Gmelin 1789 (red-billed teal) LC; Anas acuta Linnaeus 1758 (northern pintail) LC; Anas eatoni (Sharpe 1875) (southern pintail) VU. A. e. drygalskii Reichenow 1904 (Crozet Islands pintail)
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
The fauna of Illinois include a wide variety of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects (not listed). The state bird is the Northern cardinal. The state insect is the monarch butterfly. The state animal is the white-tailed deer. The state fish is the bluegill. The state fossil is the tully monster.
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well.
White-cheeked pintail: Anas bahamensis Linnaeus, 1758: 108 Red-billed teal: Anas erythrorhyncha Gmelin, JF, 1789: 109 Yellow-billed pintail: Anas georgica Gmelin, JF, 1789: 110 Eaton's pintail: Anas eatoni (Sharpe, 1875) 111 Northern pintail: Anas acuta Linnaeus, 1758: 112 Eurasian teal: Anas crecca Linnaeus, 1758: 113 Green-winged teal: Anas ...
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Some of the zoo's most notable birds include the famous laughing kookaburra in the scrub display, multiple scarlet ibis specimens in its swamp display and the Bali myna, a critically endangered bird that Lincoln Park Zoo breeds, while also maintaining the species' studbook. Thirty-one mynahs have been born at the zoo since 1972, with the most ...