How to Use pintail in a Sentence

pintail

noun
  • The one-bird bag limit for pintails will remain this season for the same reason.
    — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 23 May 2020
  • 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
  • Of the 10 duck species surveyed, all except for pintail and scaup are above long-term averages.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The same goes for other popular puddle ducks — teal, pintail and widgeon.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
  • Another duck season similar to last year's, but with a return to a one-pintail daily bag limit.
    — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
  • 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 virus has also infected wild birds including cases in mallards, northern pintails and trumpeter swans in the state.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
  • To learn more about the interim pintail strategy, visit the Fish and Wildlife website.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The daily bag limit in each zone can include no more than four mallards (of which two may be hens), three wood ducks, two canvasbacks, two redheads, two black ducks and one pintail.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The 2022 pintail estimate is the lowest in the history of the survey.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022
  • In recent years, some hunters have been frustrated by the restrictive bag limit while encountering numerous pintails in the field.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 23 May 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Under the new Fish and Wildlife interim pintail harvest strategy, hunters in all four flyways are expected to have a three-pintail daily bag limit option for next year's 2026–'27 season based on this year's breeding population results.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Research bears this out, including one extensive band recovery analysis that showed mallard and pintails were shifting north by 100 to several hundred kilometers (about 62 miles to 120-plus miles) in December and January.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2026

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