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• During teal season, hunters must be careful not to shoot the occasional shoveler, pintail or gadwall flying alone, which provide no size reference, or rolling with a squadron of teal.
• 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.
• Wintering birds on the pond itself include Teal, Shoveler, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Cormorant, Canada Goose, Water Rail, Snipe and Pintail, with many of the wildfowl species staying on to breed.
• One of the most widely distributed ducks in the world, the pintail is a medium-sized duck with slender, elegant body lines.
• Last year he counted 5,500 teal, 1,200 pintail and 2,000 widgeon among a duck population that has soared in numbers.
• Up to 600,000 gather here - gadwalls, pintails, Northern shovelers, teals.
• On the sounds, widgeon, teal, gadwalls, pintails and black ducks concentrate following a freeze.
• Recent changes in the distribution of waterfowl species have been noted, such as a decrease of baldpates and swans, and a concomitant rapid increase of pintails.
• The similar whistling call of the pintail is on the same pitch. Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
• In good years, when pintail numbers are up, well over 100,000 "sprigs" will winter on the Texas bays. Chron.com Chronicle