How to Use pintail in a Sentence

pintail

noun

• The 2022 pintail estimate is the lowest in the history of the survey.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
• The one-bird bag limit for pintails will remain this season for the same reason.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 23 May 2020
• Of the 10 duck species surveyed, all except for pintail and scaup are above long-term averages.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
• Northern pintails also saw a jump from last year of 10 percent.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• The daily pintail limit, however, has dropped again to a single bird.
  — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
• The same goes for other popular puddle ducks — teal, pintail and widgeon.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
• The pintails, widgeon and shovelers have departed south, but mallards, scoters and a few teal are still hanging in there.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• Guide Caleb Harp reported good shoots for pintails, teal and shovelers near El Campo.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• The zoo said a Northern pintail duck was also killed by the fox and three other flamingos were hurt and are being treated at the zoo’s veterinary hospital.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• Waterfowl hunters will also find nearly the same seasons, but duck hunters will find a return to a two-pintail daily limit.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The pintail is the clear standout here: A breathtaking blue sheen dominates, interspersed with eye-popping black.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2018
• Another duck season similar to last year's, but with a return to a one-pintail daily bag limit.
  — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
• On a single lake, Steve and I found pairs of pintail, widgeon, bluebill (lesser scaup), goldeneye and harlequin.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
• In addition to the dozens of dead American flamingos, a Northern pintail duck was killed, and three more flamingos were injured, officials said.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2022
• Maybe the pintail or the canvasback is better to eat, but there is nothing in the flying department as wonderfully gaudy as a pheasant or a he-mallard.
  — Field & Stream, 31 Dec. 2020
• The 564-acre marsh adjacent to Turnagain Arm is a magnet for birders, who may encounter trumpeter swans, tundra swans, red-necked grebes, northern pintails, arctic terns and other species amid the marsh's sedges.
  — Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
• With the rats gone, conservationists expect to see an explosion in the number of albatrosses, skuas, terns, petrels, and South Georgia pipits and pintail ducks.
  — Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The daily duck bag limit during the normal seasons may include no more than four mallards (including a maximum of two hens), three wood ducks, two black ducks, two canvasbacks, two redheads and one pintail.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2022
• Carson stuck to longboarding through the swell of shortboard popularity and, in 1976, founded his own company — Lance Carson Surfboards, which specializes in pintail longboards.
  — Julia Sclafani, Daily Pilot, 18 Oct. 2019
• Species observed this year included common goldeneye, hooded and common merganser, green-winged teal, ruddy duck, pintail, hooded merganser, common merganser and northern shoveler.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2017
• Northern pintail duck populations are decreasing because of wetland habitat loss, predation disease and petroleum pollution, per the IUCN.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024