pintail

• In winter as a rule it became full of water and was a favourite haunt, especially at night, of flocks of teal, also duck of a few other kinds — widgeon, pintail, and shoveller. —  Far Away And Long Ago
• The only rise in pintail numbers occurred in Alaska, the Yukon, and the boreal forest from northern British Columbia into the Northwest Territories, suggesting that a fair number of pintails took one look at the drought in the prairies and kept on flying to join the segment of the pintail clan that nests in the north country every year.
• According to the late Frank Bellrose, pintails are the most common dabbling duck in the Arctic, but pintail numbers in the north are particularly high when the potholes are dry.
• Other ducks share the habitat of over-flying the potholes in times of drought, but no other species does it more often or goes farther north than the pintail.
• The pintail index was 1.18 million, shoveler numbered 724,911 and green-winged teal numbered 496,357.

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