The nest of the Pintail is placed on low but dry, grassy land and not far from water, usually under the shelter of a bush, and is a mere depression in the ground, lined with grasses and down.
The habitat of the Pintail Duck is the northern hemisphere in general; in North America it breeds from the northern United States northward to Iceland and south in winter to Cuba and Panama.
This applies chiefly to wigeon, but we have frequently observed the same trait in pintail and occasionally in other species.
Not seeing them till quite close in, but one barrel can be emptied each time, yet soon a score of beautiful pintail and wigeon formed the basis of a pile.
The Pintail has been recorded from Pagan and Guam in the northern Marianas and from the Palau Islands and is thought to be an uncommon visitor to Micronesia.
The Pintail is what is known as a surface-feeding duck, and is placed near the common Wild Duck, the Mallard of English waters.
The Pintail Duck is a northern bird which visits our shores in small parties, during severe winters, and it nests sometimes in Ireland.
The Pintail Duck has a wide geographical range, as it either breeds in or pays winter visits to the greater part of the northern hemisphere.
Among the earliest of the birds to forsake the plains of Hindustan are the grey-lag goose and the pintail duck.
The geese and the pintail ducks, however, do not return to India until November.
The pintail snipe (Gallinago stenura) are invariably the first to appear, but they visit only the eastern parts of Northern India.
By the third week in August good bags of pintailsnipe are sometimes obtained in Bengal.
Winter passed by, and the next spring the Pintail seemed to have become a convert to her blandishments, for they nested and produced seven or eight young ones.
A male Wigeon (Mareca penelope), living with females of the same species, has been known to pair with a Pintail duck, Querquedula acuta.
We have seen that a tame wild-duck seduced after a long courtship an unwilling Pintail drake.
A male wigeon (Mareca penelope), living with females of the same species, has been known to pair with a pintail duck, Querquedula acuta.
We have seen that a tame wild-duck seduced an unwilling pintail drake after a long courtship.
Winter passed by, and the next spring the pintail seemed to have become a convert to her blandishments, for they nested and produced seven or eight young ones.
The nest of the Pintail is placed among the sedges, rushes, and reeds of open ponds.
Winter passed by, and the next spring the pintail seemed to have become a convert to her blandishments, for they nested and produced seven or eight young ones" (p.
The Brown Pintail is the commonest Duck in the Argentine Republic, and unites in the largest flocks.
The Pintail is a remarkably gregarious species, congregating in large flocks during winter, and it has been observed that many of these gatherings are composed exclusively of male birds.
Outside our islands the Pintail has a very wide distribution, breeding in the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions, and wintering almost to the Equator.
The Pintail flies well and rapidly, the wings making a peculiar and easily recognised swishing sound.
An F1 Pintail-Mallard [female] was mated with a wildPintail [male].
In the pintail snipe the axillars and the under wing-coverts are very distinctly and regularly barred with dark brown throughout.
Duck of all sorts abounded, teal, widgeon, mallard, and the rarer pintail and even the crested grebe.
When three-quarter-bred pintail = common duck hybrids were bred back to the pintail, the offspring "lost all resemblance to the common duck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pintail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
