Graceful flyers with a distinctive, slender silhouette and a cautious manner, northern pintail ducks are seen in all 50 states. Early breeders and early migrants, they breed as far north as Alaska ...

No other dabbling duck upends as much and the pigtail is able to trawl the mud on the lake or estuary bed for small invertebrates. The pintail is a candidate for the world's commonest duck with an ...