Word: pintail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hunters' other favorite ducks-teal, pintail, redheads, canvas-backs, black ducks-the supply will hardly be plentiful, but not worse than last fall. Happily, a late, wet spring helped restore some of the breeding grounds where these species concentrate. To help the mallard, however, hunters will be sharply restricted: no more than three a day along the Pacific flyway, two along the Atlantic, Mississippi and Central routes...
Guanacaste Province, in the west, is the winter haven of all those pintail ducks and Canadian geese that flapped south over the U.S. last fall. Herds of venados, er white-tailed deer, bound over the plains, pursued by hungry pumas; 6-ft. iguanas and huge (up to 4 ft. wide) alligators sun themselves along the river banks. But it is for the dense jungles of Sarapiqui, northeast of San Jose, that U.S. hunters are heading. There, packs of as many as 1,000 wild pigs grunt through the bush, uprooting and trampling all the foliage in their path. Timid...