Texas Waterfowl /
In this beautifully illustrated guide, two practicing wildlife biologists describe the life histories of forty-five species of ducks, geese, and swans that occur in Texas. For common species and those that breed in the state, each account begins with an interesting fact (such as,?Red-breasted Mergan...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2013.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abbreviations and map key
- Species accounts
- Tree ducks (Whistling-ducks): Black-bellied whistling-duck
- Fulvous whistling-duck
- Geese: Greater white-fronted goose
- Snow goose
- Ross's goose
- Canada goose and Cackling goose
- Brant
- Swans: Trumpeter swan
- Tundra swan
- Perching ducks: Muscovy duck
- Wood duck
- Dabbling ducks: Gadwall
- Eurasian wigeon
- American wigeon
- American black duck
- Mallard
- Mexican duck
- Mottled duck
- Blue-winged teal
- Cinnamon teal
- Northern shoveler
- White-cheeked pintail
- Northern pintail
- Garganey
- Green-winged teal
- Diving ducks: Canvasback
- Redhead
- Ring-necked duck
- Greater scaup
- Lesser scaup
- Sea ducks: Common eider
- King eider
- Harlequin duck
- Surf scoter
- White-winged scoter
- Black scoter
- Long-tailed duck
- Bufflehead
- Common goldeneye
- Barrow's goldeneye
- Hooded merganser
- Common merganser
- Red-breasted merganser
- Stiff-tailed ducks: Masked duck
- Ruddy duck
- Scientific names of animals and plants occurring in the text.