WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Anas acuta | Northern Pintail 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The northern pintail has one of the most extensive breeding ranges of
any North American duck [14].  Its breeding range extends from northern
Alaska across northern Canada to northern and eastern Quebec, New
Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and from from California across the Great
Lakes region to St. Lawrence River, Maine [3,10].  The northern pintail
also breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Asia, and in the Kerguelen
and Corozet Islands [10].  These ducks winter from southern Alaska south
to northern New Mexico and east to central Missouri and the Ohio Valley,
and along the Atlantic from Massachusetts south throughout the southern
United States to South America [3,10,13].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA


    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA


    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ
    
NM


    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC
    
SD


    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY
    
DC






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    38  Tamarack
     5  Balsam fir
    63  Cottonwood
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    95  Black willow
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   217  Aspen
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch
   252  Paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Northern pintails commonly inhabit wetland communities dominated by
cattail (Typha spp.), bulrush (Scirpus spp.), whitetop (Scolochloa
festucacea), and other emergent and aquatic vegetation [1,5].  Nests of
these ducks are often found in extensive stands of whitetop, bluegrass
(Poa spp.), or hardstem bulrushes (Scirpus acutus); juncus (Juncus spp.)
beds; mixed prairie grasses; and burned weed areas.  Northern pintails
nest in farmland habitats more than other species of waterfowl do.
Stubble fields, roadsides, hayfields, pastures, field edges, and fields
of growing grain are often chosen as nest sites [1].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Anas acuta | Northern Pintail