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With Wings Extended : A Leap into the Wood Duck's World /
"The wood duck is unique among North American ducks for several reasons. It is largely considered the most beautiful duck in the world. Wood ducks nest across eastern North America and the Pacific Northwest, while most other ducks nest in the northern Great Plains, Prairie Provinces, or the tun...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The wood duck is unique among North American ducks for several reasons. It is largely considered the most beautiful duck in the world. Wood ducks nest across eastern North America and the Pacific Northwest, while most other ducks nest in the northern Great Plains, Prairie Provinces, or the tundra/boreal regions of northern Canada and Alaska. Wood ducks are one of the few ducks that nest in trees, while most ducks nest on the ground. In the early 1900s, many gave up the wood duck for extinction. Wood ducks were one of only a few species named in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. Today, they are one of the most harvested ducks in eastern states. Conservation is hard work and often takes place far from where most of us live. Because they readily adopt nesting boxes, wood ducks invite almost anyone to build, hang, and monitor nest boxes near home. Wood ducks allow a closeness, engagement, and involvement with conservation that most other waterfowl species don't allow. This book mixes the historical literature about this species with modern science, and also shows how our views of conservation have changed over the last century"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (184 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781609386962 |