White-cheeked Pintail (Bahama Pintail) Anas bahamensis

This species is native to South and Central America but is popular in captivity and escaped birds are frequently encountered in the wild.

The name Bahama Pintail seems to be more commonly used in contexts of captive birds, with White-cheeked Pintail being the favoured name for wild birds.

Although I'm sure leucistic birds could rarely appear in the wild, such birds represent a large proportion of captive, and therefore escaped, birds.

White-cheeked Pintail, Blakeney Collection, 12-Apr-04 White-cheeked Pintail, Blakeney Collection, 12-Apr-04

captive leucistic White-cheeked Pintail, Blakeney Collection (Norfolk, UK), 12th April 2004

 
White-cheeked Pintail, Blakeney Collection, 18-Jan-04

 

 

captive normal and leucistic White-cheeked Pintails, Blakeney Collection (Norfolk, UK), 18th January 2004