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What is a pintail?

What is a pintail? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
    1. A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.
  2. A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
  3. (engineering) The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
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The movements of pintail, as just stated, are clearly regulated by the state of water in the marshes.
Some ducks, such as mallard and pintail, will nest in grass and lush ground cover up to a kilometre or more away from the water body.
At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls.
Ever distinctive and elegant, the pintail is one of my all-time favourites.
Last year he counted 5,500 teal, 1,200 pintail and 2,000 widgeon among a duck population that has soared in numbers.
The pintail snipe are invariably the first to appear, but they visit only the eastern parts of Northern India.

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