White Cheeked Pintail

[porcupine]

This duck has been hanging around Beacon Hill Park in Victoria. I contacted the Rare Bird alert and they think that is probably an escapee and that there have been reports of it around Greater Victoria for a year. Since It used to be called the Bahama Duck, you don't get to see many around here. If it was hunting season, and it flew by my blind, I might have to call a taxidermist.

[Marc]

To sweet. He'll probably migrate out of the area before the season opens.

[Shed Hunter]

nice looking duck

[EvanG]

Nice duck, reminds me, last year i shot a mallard with a male head and a female body, it was pretty strange looking but i didnt have a camera and my buddy mixed em up when he did the cleaning, would have likied to have that bird mounted. That duck above does look like some of the ones I see in pictures of hunts down in s. america.

[1899]

From:
http://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfo.../91/index.html

Bahama pintails are endemic to the Neotropical Realm. They are widely distributed and locally common in the Caribbean and mainly coastal regions of South America south to southern Chile and central Argentina. Bahama pintail are also found in the Galapagos Islands. (

[longshot]

What a cool lookin' duck!