[Length 23 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This male Red-breasted Merganser was photographed Brigantine NWR, New Jersey, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: April 1989)

[Length 23 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This female Red-breasted Merganser was photographed in Coot Bay Pond in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 64 film. (Date: February 1983)

[Length 23 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This female Red-breasted Merganser in flight was photographed at Cape May, New Jersey, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: March 1990)

[Length 21 (Female) to 25 (Male) in. Wingspan 34 in.]

This male Northern Pintail was photographed at the ponds along Center Patrol Road at Malheur NWR, Burns, Oregon. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6 IF-ED lens on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 02, 2025)

[Length 21 (Female) to 25 (Male) in. Wingspan 34 in.]

The Northern Pintail is one of the most common and widespread ducks in North America. It breeds in the central and western US, all across the northern US, and in virtually all of Alaska and Canada (save Newfoundland and Labrador, and the high arctic reaches such as Baffin and Ellsmere Islands). The males are handsome with their chocolate heads, snow-white breasts and neck stripe, silver-gray bodies, and the long tail plumes which give them their name of "Pintail". This male was photographed at the Lake Hood Seaplane Marina in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm f4.5 ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1989)

[Length 21 (Female) to 25 (Male) in. Wingspan 34 in.]

This female Northern Pintail was photographed in the grass along a small pond in a city park in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: July 1994)

[Length 21 (Female) to 25 (Male) in. Wingspan 34 in.]

This Northern Pintail was photographed at Lakeside Park, Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 70-200mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=405mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: September 27, 2007)

[Length 21 (Female) to 25 (Male) in. Wingspan 34 in.]

This Northern Pintail was photographed at Lakeside Park, Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 70-200mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=405mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: September 27, 2007)