Photo from Flickr, Bill Bouton

This week species is the Northern Pintail and it is one ‘chic’ looking duck. It is not only chic when swimming and feeding on the water, but it has quite the sleek flight profile and rapid efficient flight compared to other ducks! Find out more about this duck in this week’s Tweet of the Week!

Each week we introduce a new bird from the Ottawa-Gatineau area through our segment on CBC Radio’s In Town and Out. Alex MacDonald, Nature Canada’s Manager of Protected Areas, shares interesting facts about the birds that live in our communities. Be sure to tune-in to “Bird Tweet of the Week” on CBC Radio One 91.5 FM on Saturday mornings from 6am to 9am and listen to past episodes on our website.

This episode aired on Saturday, November 7th , 2015.