The ecology of the black duck in eastern Canada / Bruce S. Wright.
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TextPublication details: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, 1946.Description: 111, vii p. : maps (most col. ) ; 28 cmOnline resources: Abstract: As Albert Hochbaum has called the Canvasback the gold standard of the central and western ducks, so is the magnificent black duck the gold standard of the eastern wildfowler. His waryness and intelligence have enabled him to survive and almost hold his own in the most densely populated section of the continent. He was probably one of the first game species to be shot by the original settlers, as he frequents the shores of the eastern seaboard where they landed and hewed out their homes from the forest. And to this day he is to be found in every beaver- pond and stream in the remaining sparsely settled portions of this range. In the great wilderness of the interior of the Labrador peninsula he breeds as completely oblivious of the presence of man as he would on the moon, because there are no men there during his breeding season. Thus he lives in the two extremes of relationship with man. His winters are spent on the thickly populated Atlantic seaboard and west to the Mississippi, and h
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Includes bibliographical references (p. i-vii).
As Albert Hochbaum has called the Canvasback the gold standard of the central and western ducks, so is the magnificent black duck the gold standard of the eastern wildfowler. His waryness and intelligence have enabled him to survive and almost hold his own in the most densely populated section of the continent. He was probably one of the first game species to be shot by the original settlers, as he frequents the shores of the eastern seaboard where they landed and hewed out their homes from the forest. And to this day he is to be found in every beaver- pond and stream in the remaining sparsely settled portions of this range. In the great wilderness of the interior of the Labrador peninsula he breeds as completely oblivious of the presence of man as he would on the moon, because there are no men there during his breeding season. Thus he lives in the two extremes of relationship with man. His winters are spent on the thickly populated Atlantic seaboard and west to the Mississippi, and h