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• Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
• Nestled in the hills of California's San Joaquin Valley, a tranquil pond invites flocks of ruddy ducks, pintails, and shovelers to feed at its shores.
• During the spring and fall migration periods, extensive use is made of the area by most waterfowl in the mid-Atlantic region, including Canada geese, greenwinged teal, bluewinged teal, gadwall, pintail, wigeon and shoveler. Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
• The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
• The shovelers and pintails have reached the northern plains and have spread through much of Alaska.
• Call The seven-way Iverson Combination Whistle in cocobolo or African blackwood is as elegant as the pintail drake itself. Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
• (Confession: I'm guilty of discarding a few pintailed guns in my time. Stoked on a wooden surfboard
• We're pacing one of the rivers here, tea-colored with a pintail duck on it and geese in a up against the clouds and rocks and tumbleweed, everything looking obdurate. Rodeo Days
• This helps to explain why pintails, mallards, and other ducks landed on farms and infuriated farmers in the Klamath Basin during the summer of 1946.
• Ever distinctive and elegant, the pintail is one of my all-time favourites.