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Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Multiple copy pack, New)
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Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Multiple copy pack, New)
Series: Bird Families of the World
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Wildfowl and screamers belong to a highly diverse family of birds,
confined to watery habitats. They are amongst the most attractive
of birds and are very well-known to man, who has domesticated them,
used their feathers for warm clothing and ornamentation, admired
their flight, courtship and migration, caught them for food,
maintained them in captivity for pleasure, and written about their
doings in delightful children's stories, from Mother Goose to
Jemima Puddleduck and Donald Duck. They occur throughout the world
except Antarctica. Some are faithful to the same partner for life,
others for only the few minutes of copulation. In some species,
male and female make devoted parents, and yet there is one within
the group whose female lays her eggs in the nests of others and
never incubates. Diving as a method of obtaining food has evolved
many times within the family. Most nest in the open but others in
the tree-hole nests of woodpeckers and some in the ground burrows
of rabbits or aardvarks. They may be highly social or solitary,
defending a large territory.
Ducks, Geese, and Swans begins with eight chapters giving an
overview of the family, their taxonomy and evolution, feeding
ecology, breeding strategies, social behavior, movements and
migrations, population dynamics, and conservation and management,
followed by accounts of 165 species, written by a team of expert
wildfowl specialists, describing each bird in its natural state and
summarizing the published literature and recent research.
Complementing the accounts are thirty specially commissioned color
plates by Mark Hulme, along with numerous black and white drawings
illustrating behaviors, plus distribution maps for each species.
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