• At one time, more than 10 million nesting pintails dotted the grasslands and boreal forest of western Canada and the United States.

• Today, pintails number less than 2 million – a staggering 83 percent decline.

• Scientists largely attribute the decline to habitat loss.

• Nesting habitats in the north are being plowed under and converted to cropland, while some farming practices destroy pintail nests before the eggs have a chance to hatch.

• Compounding the problem is the extensive loss of key migration and wintering habitats in the Klamath Basin and California’s Central Valley, along the Gulf Coast and in certain areas of Mexico.

With your commitment, these continental travelers will once again fill the skies from Canada to Mexico.