The Upland and Webless Migratory Game Birds of Texas /
Authored by some of the state's top wildlife scientists, The Upland and Webless Migratory Game Birds of Texas presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive information covering twenty-one species of game birds. Ranging from the most well-known, like the Wild Turkey and Mourning Dove, to the ma...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2017]
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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:
- Foreword / by Fred C. Bryant
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Historical and cultural importance of upland and webless migratory game birds in Texas
- Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships
- Sandhill crane
- Clapper rail
- King rail
- Virginia rail
- Sora rail
- American coot
- Common gallinule and common moorhen
- Purple gallinule
- Wilson's snipe
- American woodcock
- White-tipped dove
- Mourning dove
- White-winged dove
- Ring-necked pheasant
- Lesser prairie-chicken
- Gambel's quail
- Scaled quail
- Northern bobwhite
- Montezuma quail
- Wild turkey
- Plain chachalaca
- Resident and webless migratory game bird conservation in Texas and the surrounding region: joint ventures and landscape conservation cooperatives.