page_title: Eaton's pintail
hierarchical_section_title: Eaton's pintail
caption_attribution_description: Anas eatoni English: Illustration of Eaton's Pintails by John Gerrard Keulemans
context_page_description: Eaton's pintail is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas. It is also known as the southern pintail. The species is restricted to the island groups of Kerguelen and Crozet in the southern Indian Ocean. It resembles a small female northern pintail. It was named after the English explorer and naturalist Alfred Edmund Eaton. It is threatened by introduced species, particularly feral cats, which prey on it.
  There are two subspecies: A. eatoni eatoni and A. eatoni drygalskii.
context_section_description: Eaton's pintail (Anas eatoni) is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas.  It is also known as the southern pintail. The species is restricted to the island groups of Kerguelen and Crozet in the southern Indian Ocean. It resembles a small female northern pintail.  It was named after the English explorer and naturalist Alfred Edmund Eaton.  It is threatened by introduced species, particularly feral cats, which prey on it.
  There are two subspecies: A. eatoni eatoni (Kerguelen pintail) and A. eatoni drygalskii (Crozet pintail).
caption: With ducklings, illustration by Keulemans, 1895
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