Pintail Explained

Pintail may refer to:

Animals

Dabbling ducks

• Northern pintail (Anas acuta), sometimes called the pintail, the most common pintail species
• White-cheeked pintail (Anas bahamensis), from the Caribbean, South America and the Galápagos
• Yellow-billed pintail (Anas georgica), found from southern Colombia to South Georgia
• South Georgia pintail (Anas georgica georgica), the nominate race of the yellow-billed pintail
• Eaton's pintail (Anas eatoni), from the islands of Kerguelen and Crozet

Other animals

• Pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura), a small stocky wader
• Acisoma, a genus of dragonflies

Other uses

• Fairey Pintail, a British single-engined floatplane fighter
• Haynes Pintail canard-configuration ultralight aircraft
• Pintail Island, Nunavut, Canada
• Pin-tailed longboards, a type of skateboard
• USS Pintail (AMc-17), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
• Pintail Duck, a Disney character in the Duck family

See also

• • Pin the tail on the donkey, traditional children's game