| The movements of pintail, as just stated, are clearly regulated by the state of water in the marshes. |
| In fact, it reminded me of a pintail duck in the way its primaries, the ten outermost feathers of the wing, seemed to do all the flying. |
| The pintail flies well and rapidly, the wings making a peculiar and easily recognised swishing sound. |
| Among the earliest of the birds to forsake the plains of Hindustan are the grey-lag goose and the pintail duck. |
| At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls. |
| One of the most widely distributed ducks in the world, the pintail is a medium-sized duck with slender, elegant body lines. |
