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Anas acuta
The pintail's range is mostly confined to northern and northeastern Europe, though the bird is also found in the eastern and northern parts of central Europe, in northwestern Europe and in England. In England and northwestern Europe it is partly resident, whereas birds inhabiting other parts of the continent are migrant, wintering in western Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa as far as the Sudan, but mostly on the upper reaches of the Nile. The pintail leaves for winter quarters in August to September, returning to its breeding grounds at the end of March and in April. It favours large expanses of still water, chiefly lakes, and in the north is found in abundance in tundra, though it also occurs in marshy areas and often near the sea. In Scandinavia it is one of the commonest of ducks. The birds arrive at their nesting grounds in spring already in pairs. The nest is fashioned by the female in a depression in the ground lined with dry plant parts gathered in the immediate vicinity. It is concealed in a clump of grass or in thickets by the waterside, though it may also be located in a meadow or even in woodland, often several hundred yards from water. The seven to eleven eggs are incubated 22 to 23 days by the female alone while the male keeps guard close by. The pintail feeds on various seeds, shoots and green plant parts, as well as on insects and their larvae, spiders, molluscs, worms and occasionally a tadpole or small frog.
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