Northern Pintail

Northern Pintail Anas acuta

Fairly common passage migrant and winter visitor. Very scarce in summer. RBBP.

 

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Flock of Pintail at Alkborough Flats on November 15th  2015 (Graham Catley).

 

The wintering Pintail population is currently of the order of 500 birds focused primarily in The Wash at Frampton Marsh and Freiston Shore and on the Humber at Alkborough Flats. Inland small flocks occur regularly but rarely get into double figures.  Birds increasingly summer and in 2018 three pairs were noted at three separate sites, but there was no other evidence of breeding. Hollings (2010) in the 2007 RBBP report indicated confirmed breeding took place that year at an undisclosed site in the county where 7 ducklings were seen. The only instance of confirmed breeding in the last 29 years to 2019.

 

Reference

Holling, M., and the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (2010). Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2007. British Birds 103 (1): 2-52.

 

(Account as per new Birds of Lincolnshire (2021), included September 2022)

 

 

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