White-cheeked Pintail - Bubali, Aruba - April 2013
Aruba must be one of the easiest places to see this bird, which is present nearly everywhere there is water. The unimaginative name "White-cheeked Pintail" was attached to this species when it was decided (I am guessing here, maybe WC Pintail had precedence) that Bahama Pintail was a rather parochial name for a bird that occurs across much of the neotropics. Neotropical Pintail would've been a much cooler name.
White-cheeked Pintail - Bubali, Aruba - April 2013
Aruba must be one of the easiest places to see this bird, which is present nearly everywhere there is water. The unimaginative name "White-cheeked Pintail" was attached to this species when it was decided (I am guessing here, maybe WC Pintail had precedence) that Bahama Pintail was a rather parochial name for a bird that occurs across much of the neotropics. Neotropical Pintail would've been a much cooler name.