These were the birds we sought after in winter; but we could shoot for the table all the year round, for no sooner was it the duck's pairing and breeding season than another bird-population from their breeding- grounds in the arctic and sub-arctic regions came on the scene- plover, sandpiper, godwit, curlew, whimbrel,-a host of northern species that made the summer-dried pampas their winter abode.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson