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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the most widely distributed ducks in the world, the pintail is a medium-sized duck with slender, elegant body lines.
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Last year he counted 5,500 teal, 1,200 pintail and 2,000 widgeon among a duck population that has soared in numbers.
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Up to 600,000 gather here - gadwalls, pintails, Northern shovelers, teals.
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On the sounds, widgeon, teal, gadwalls, pintails and black ducks concentrate following a freeze.
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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.
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The similar whistling call of the pintail is on the same pitch.
Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
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In good years, when pintail numbers are up, well over 100,000 "sprigs" will winter on the Texas bays.
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And while the local migratory birds are flying out, the foreign ones like mallards, pintails, teals, shovelers, pochards, waders and curlews are coming in.
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This group of duck species includes mallards, teal, pintails, and others that feed at or near the surface, where viruses in water are most likely to be picked up.
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Some ducks, such as mallard and pintail, will nest in grass and lush ground cover up to a kilometre or more away from the water body.
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Wintering waterfowl include pintail, cinnamon teal, American widgeon, surf scoter and ruddy duck.
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
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As a result, foraging conditions that female Mallard and pintail encounter during spring migration influence the amount of lipid stored and, thus, reproductive success.
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In fact, it reminded me of a pintail duck in the way its primaries, the ten outermost feathers of the wing, seemed to do all the flying.
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Examples of dabbling ducks are the mallards, cinnamon teals, shovellers, green and blue-winged teals, pintails, black ducks, baldpates and gadwalls.
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It would have to be either a common goldeneye or a pintail.
This ones for the duck hunters: What is your dream duck to mount?(Mines any Drake sea duck or a nice Canvasback)
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Two-thirds of the shooters shot a couple of pintails, two drake woodies, a greenhead, and a shoveler.
Young Guns
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Where the trail hugs the edge of the slough, watch for waterfowl - pintails, green-winged teals, and widgeons - and listen for the machine-gun rattle of belted kingfishers.
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And while the local migratory birds are flying out, the foreign ones like mallards, pintails, teals, shovelers, pochards, waders and curlews are coming in.
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In our wide territory, different kinds of ducks can be found such as: golden-coloured ducks, red shoveler, pintails, capuchin pigeon, and whistling ducks.
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Final straw was when I jumped up three beautiful fully-feathered pintail males off a ditch in mid-December.
Shouldering a shotgun
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The U. S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior today announced a detection of the H5 and N1 avian influenza subtypes in samples from wild Northern pintail ducks in Montana.
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As long as water existed nearby for resting, birds like Canada geese, widgeon, and pintails often thrived in the irrigated countryside.
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Bird species like garganey, gadwall, mallard, shoveller, pintail and wigeon use the lake in transit.
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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.
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In more western regions, there have been more frequent sightings of "mainland ducks" such as pintail ducks (Anas acuta) and mallard (A. platyrhynchos [9]).
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges
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At certain times there can be a million birds in front of you consisting of sandhill cranes, snow geese, cackling geese, white-fronted geese, pintails, wigeons and mallards.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The shovelers and pintails have reached the northern plains and have spread through much of Alaska.
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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
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(Confession: I'm guilty of discarding a few pintailed guns in my time.
Stoked on a wooden surfboard
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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
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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.
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Ever distinctive and elegant, the pintail is one of my all-time favourites.
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The 2.56 million pintails could be used to justify allowing harvest of the birds over the whole duck season instead of just 39 days.
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Just offshore some mallard and pintail – birds usually found on fresh water – were bobbing up and down on the waves, along with two truly marine ducks, an eider and a common scoter.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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Its skies were often darkened by blizzards of snow geese and immense flocks of great blue herons, swans, diving ducks, terns, pintails, mallards, Canada geese, osprey, bald eagles and more.
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Predominant waterfowl species that breed in the region include the lesser scaup, pintail, scoter, and wigeon.
Upper Yukon Tayga Province (Bailey)
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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.
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Just offshore some mallard and pintail – birds usually found on fresh water – were bobbing up and down on the waves, along with two truly marine ducks, an eider and a common scoter.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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In fall and winter, Northern Pintails eat seeds and waste grain.
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The Ducks of Teshekpuk Lake
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In fact, it reminded me of a pintail duck in the way its primaries, the ten outermost feathers of the wing, seemed to do all the flying.
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Far less abundant and therefore more highly prized are pintails and shovelers.
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The short list includes gadwalls, wigeons, mallards, shovelers, mottled ducks and pintails.
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At certain times there can be a million birds in front of you consisting of sandhill cranes, snow geese, cackling geese, white-fronted geese, pintails, wigeons and mallards.
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At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls.
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Bird species like garganey, gadwall, mallard, shoveller, pintail and wigeon use the lake in transit.
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If I am spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a guided trip to another part of the country (or Canada or Mexico), or trying to get my first pintail or black duck, I would defiantly spend the extra money to get premium shot.
There are a lot of non-toxic alternatives to steel shot out there. You all know what they are.
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Northern pintail, shoveler, green-winged teal and mallard are most numerous, but a discerning eye will spot many types of ducks such as wigeon, cinnamon teal, gadwall and varieties of divers like canvasback, ring-necked and ruddy ducks.
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The report identified common bird species such as the American oystercatcher, common nighthawk, and northern pintail that are likely to become species of conservation concern as a result of climate change.
Secretary Salazar Releases New ���State of the Birds��� Report Showing Climate Change Threatens Hundreds of Species
