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The 2022 Tour Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 28 March to 3 April at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Wales. Organised by the World Snooker Tour, it comprised the top eight players on the money list for ranking events held in the 2021–22 snooker season. It was the fourth edition of the Tour Championship, first held in 2019, and the fifteenth of sixteen ranking events of the 2021–22 snooker season, following the Gibraltar Open and preceding the World Championship. Broadcast by ITV4 in the United Kingdom, the event featured a prize fund of £370,000, of which the winner received £150,000. Neil Robertson (pictured) retained the title he won in 2021, coming from 4–9 behind in the final to defeat John Higgins 10–9. This was Robertson's 23rd win in ranking tournaments. Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to make five century breaks in two consecutive matches. (This article is part of a featured topic: Tour Championship (snooker).)

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The northern pintail (Anas acuta) is a duck with a wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. It is migratory and winters south of its breeding range to the equator. Unusual for a bird with such a large range, it has no geographical subspecies if the possibly conspecific Eaton's pintail is considered to be a separate species. It is a fairly large duck, with a long pointed tail that gives rise to the species's English and scientific names. The northern pintail's common name describes the male's two long black tail feathers, which in flight look like a single pin or twig. Hens make a coarse quack and the drakes a flute-like whistle. It is a bird of open wetlands, nesting on the ground and often at some distance from water. It feeds by dabbling for plant food and adds small invertebrates to its diet during the nesting season. When not breeding, it is highly gregarious, forming large mixed flocks with other species of duck. This male northern pintail was photographed at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in northern California.

Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg

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