Anas georgica
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The yellow-billed pintail (Anas georgica) is a South American dabbling duck of the genus Anas with three described subspecies. The yellow-billed pintail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the ducks, geese, and swans in the genus Anas and coined the binomial name Anas georgica. Gmelin based his description on the "Georgia duck" that had been described in 1785 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his A General Synopsis of Birds. The naturalist Joseph Banks had provided Latham with a water-colour drawing of the duck by Georg Forster who had accompanied James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean. The watercolour was painted in 1775 in South Georgia. This picture is now the holotype for the species and is held by the Natural History Museum in London. The genus name Anas is the Latin word for a duck.
Three subspecies are recognised: A. g.... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tierra del Fuego National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Torres del Paine National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 5 | Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 6 | Península Valdés | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile | |
| 3 | Quito | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 4 | La Paz | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 5 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 6 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 7 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ostrava Zoo | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 2 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Slimbridge Wetland Centre | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Hellabrunn Zoo | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 5 | The Green Zoo Wuppertal | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 6 | Heidelberg Zoo | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 7 | Brandywine Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Zoológico de Oruro | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 9 | Agroflori Parque de las Aves | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 10 | Zoo Schlichtweg 11 in München | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 11 | Zoo Siebenbrunner Straße 6 in München | 🇩🇪 Germany |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-billed Pintail sighting in Quito on a given day, based on 141 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 49th most-seen of the 167 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and August–September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-billed Pintail in Quito on a given day, against under 5% in January, March and June, the lowest months.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-billed Pintail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 9
Of the 9 cities where we can rate Yellow-billed Pintail sightings, Quito ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Cochabamba (Bolivia, about 40%) and Santiago (Chile, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-billed Pintail is recorded against all the birds logged in Quito (141 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
