After seeing many small scraggly vees of Canada geese flying from the west, probably from the Hudson River, Danny and I forget our errands and spend a bit of time traversing wide-open fields in and ...

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 and ...

Often described as one of the more elegant looking ducks, the male northern pintail sports a graceful white stripe accenting the contours of its neck, and a long wisp of central tail feathers.