American Pintail - A male and female bird flying

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aques- AMERICAN PINTAIL Male Female

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Subject 13 RESTORE PROTECT • CONSERVE WORK LIKE A BEAVER FOR RESTORATION SKADE NARKS AMERICA'S RESOURCES WILDLIFE AMERICAN PINTAIL and New York to the West Indies and Panama; also in (Anas acuta tzitzihoa linnaeus) Hawaiian Islands. These ducks arrive at their breeding grounds very early, sometimes before the ice The Pintail, aptly called the greyhound is out of the lakes, and their eggs, seven of water fowl, is a swift-flying, agile, to ten in number and pale greenish to hardy species. The male is attractively olive buff in color, are laid in late March garbed in a most effective blending of or April, the young being fully fledged gray, white and brown, surpassing many in late June. other birds of more gaudy hues. The The species has increased wonder- Pintail breeds from Alaska and James fully since spring shooting was out- Bay to California and, rarely, Pennsyl- lawed by Federal law. Pintails are very vania; and winters from British Columbia fond of grain for winter feed. NAME CITY. Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York