pintail in English

noun
1
a mainly migratory duck with a pointed tail.
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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1. With the carcasses now opened, pintail ducks arrive for a meal.

2. The American wigeon is a medium-sized bird; it is larger than a teal, but smaller than a pintail.

3. 25 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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