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Author Weller, Milton W

Title Waterfowl in Winter
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1984

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Description 1 online resource (646 pages)
Contents Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Reviewers; I. Winter in Perspective; II. Reproductive and Social Behavior; III. Activity Budgets; IV. Community and Feeding Ecology; V. Weights, Molts, and Condition; VI. Habitat Resources and Habitat Selection; VII. New Habitats and Habitat Management; VIII. Harvest, Distribution, and Population Status; IX. Decimating Influences: Habitat Loss, Toxins, and Disease; Index
Summary Waterfowl in Winter was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The emphasis in research on waterfowl has traditionally focused on breeding as opposed to migrant or wintering birds. Scientists have long been interested in courtship, nest sites, laying, and brood-rearing, and they have also been concerned about losses of eggs, young, nesting hens, and breeding habitats, especially as they have affected the goal of increas
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Subject Waterfowl -- Wintering -- Congresses
Birds -- Wintering -- Congresses
Birds -- Wintering
Waterfowl -- Wintering
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816655786
0816655782