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title: "White-cheeked Pintail"
description: "Anas bahamensis — Uccelli. The white-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis), also known as the Bahama pintail, Bahama duck, or Galápagos duck is a species of dabbling duck that is patchily distributed throughout South America and the Caribbean."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/white-cheeked-pintail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-cheeked Pintail

> Anas bahamensis — Uccelli. The white-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis), also known as the Bahama pintail,  Bahama duck, or Galápagos duck is a species of dabbling duck that is patchily distributed throughout South America and the Caribbean.

- Scientific name: *Anas bahamensis*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi)
- iNaturalist observations: 7748
- Wikidata: [Q800212](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q800212)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6951](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6951)

## Names

- en: White-cheeked Pintail
- de: Bahamaente
- es: Pato gargantilla
- fr: Canard des Bahamas
- nl: Bahamapijlstaart
- pt: Marreca-toicinho
- pl: Rożeniec białolicy

## Countries with the most observations

EC (2023), AR (1970), BR (642), PE (479), DO (382), PR (323), CL (240), VI (156), AW (141), BS (110), CW (81), CH (66)

## Summary

The white-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis), also known as the Bahama pintail,  Bahama duck, or Galápagos duck is a species of dabbling duck that is patchily distributed throughout South America and the Caribbean. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae under its current scientific name.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-cheeked_pintail

## Photo

![White-cheeked Pintail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-cheeked-pintail/medium.jpg)

Photo: filipeprates · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254472096

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-cheeked-pintail?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).