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High Tide and an East Wind

The Story of the Black Duck

Bruce S Wright (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2017
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-3723-4 (ISBN)

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Eastern waterfowlers, who know the black duck best, regard this big dusky bird as the top game bird against which all other ducks are measured. In parts of the Northeast this feeling of affection is so strong that in some circles only the black rates the name of "duck." All other species, even the famed canvasback, are "coots," "fish ducks," or are known by even less complimentary titles. Much of this devotion is justified. Without the black duck, wildfowling in much of the thickly settled East would be an unrewarding pastime. Big as a mallard, as wary as a Canada goose, and as handsome in full plumage as any duck that flies, the black duck fills a place on the American sporting scene that could be filled by no other waterfowl. Here is the dramatic story of the life of the black duck, from the time the broods hatch on the spruce-lined ponds of eastern Canada, through the hazardous flights to the southern wintering areas, to the return of the paired birds to the nesting grounds in spring. It is a story told authoritatively by a Canadian scientist whose adult life has been spent in studying the black duck from the fastnesses of its northern breeding grounds in Labrador and Ungava Bay, to the marshes of Louisiana. In this book are facts on the black and other species of waterfowl that will be new to many students of waterfowl as well as to sportsmen. Here also are recommendations for perpetuating the flights of these magnificent game birds.

Bruce Wright, who was born and raised in the waterfowl breeding grounds of eastern Canada, is director of the Northeastern Wildlife Station maintained by the Wildlife Management Institute at the University of New Brunswick, a former naturalist of Ducks Unlimited (Canada), and a keen observer who has hunted black ducks with binoculars and guns since boyhood.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Wildlife Management Institute Classics
Verlagsort	Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
ISBN-10	0-8117-3723-3 / 0811737233
ISBN-13	978-0-8117-3723-4 / 9780811737234
Zustand	Neuware