The featured species for the World Cup of Duck Decoys at The Gathering 2018 was the pintail. I entered the bird shown below. It has a hollow body of white cedar with a head of basswood and an inletted “sprig” of oak. The bird is self righting and painted in acrylics. I left the sprig short because the molt is rarely fair enough along during the Minnesota duck season to see a bird with a full length tail.