|Yellow-billed Pintail Anas
Chilean name: Pato jergón grande
Brazilian name: Marreca-parda
|The Yellow-billed Teal is distributed from southern Colombia to Tierra del Fuego and across to South Georgia in the South Atlantic from which the species name is derived. It breeds in Rio Grande do Sul but there also seems to be a migration of other populations into south Brazil during the austral winter.
All these photos show the sub-species A. g. spinicauda.
|Distinguishing features are its bright yellow bill with black culmen, its pointed tail and its speckled flanks. It is larger and has a longer neck than the similar Speckled Teal A. flavirostris but the neck is sometimes held squat as you can see from the bird in the second photo.|
|The 3rd photo shows 2 Yellow-billed Pintail on the right with a Speckled Teal on the left.|