Northern Pintail
Anas acuta
Family: Ducks, geese, and waterfowl
Northern Pintail is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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It feeds by dabbling for plant food, adding small invertebrates to its diet during the nesting season.
During the breeding season, this bird eats mainly invertebrate animals, including aquatic insects, molluscs and crustaceans.
The precocial downy chicks are then led by the female to the nearest body of water, where they feed on dead insects on the water surface.