Epidemics of botulism and cholera exacted a heavy toll on waterfowl in the West. |
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An interesting waterfowl is the Common Gallinule, which looks like a swimming chicken, bobbing its head forward and back. |
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A sister-group relationship between gallinaceous birds and waterfowl, the Galloanserae, is also strongly supported. |
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For those who prefer to stay on shore, Ocean City's bayside overlooks mudflats that harbor waterfowl, shorebirds, and gulls. |
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The lake has become well known in birding circles as a fine place to see all types of waterfowl and shorebirds, both rare and common. |
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He's a prize-winning breeder of poultry and waterfowl and started breeding bantams and poultry when he was seven. |
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Species like Russian thistle and grasshoppers, as well as waterfowl came under the agency's purview. |
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Many species of waterfowl flourish in the island's lagoons, creeks, and mud flats, which attract many migrating North American species. |
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Like other waterfowl species, common goldeneye females are natal and breeding site philopatric. |
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Some species of waterfowl adapted to feeding on rice, barley, lettuce, and other crops grown on farms in California. |
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Keep your birds separate from wild birds, waterfowl, pets and other animals. |
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These waterfowl migrate early in spring and move northward from their wintering grounds as soon as wetlands become ice-free. |
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The ability of many different waterfowl species to hybridize raises a number of important issues about geographic structure and gene flow. |
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There are chapters that walk women through various hunts such as upland game, deer, waterfowl, wild turkey and antelope. |
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Migrating birds can be seen as early as January, when horned larks arrive, followed by waterfowl in February and March. |
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The new facility will cater for the rarer bird species, like parrots, raptors, waterfowl, cranes, storks, hornbills, and other selected birds. |
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There is much more wildlife everywhere, many kinds of ducks and waterfowl, paddling by the window of this houseboat at eye level. |
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Raptors, colonial birds, shorebirds, wading birds, and waterfowl can all be found feeding and nesting on various islands in the Bay. |
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The refuse dump-sewage lagoons had the largest numbers of waterfowl, herring gulls, and hoary redpolls, but the lowest diversity index. |
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Our target species these past weeks were not raptors, waders, or waterfowl, but were, in fact, songbirds, specifically warblers. |
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The green central island is inhabited by ducks, cormorants, Canada geese and other territorial waterfowl. |
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Big, bold, and fiercely territorial, these birds dominate all other waterfowl in their domains. |
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Their dams help to maintain water levels in forest streams, thus providing habitat for themselves, fish, and waterfowl. |
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Another new duck for us was the exquisite Harlequin Duck, a waterfowl rarely spotted close to shore. |
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The black-headed duck most often parasitizes other waterfowl and marsh-nesting birds. |
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His aerial surveys documented the tremendous decline in waterfowl use and the redistribution of diving ducks to the Mississippi River. |
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Among waterfowl, the Canada Goose is the least loved, especially by golfers. |
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High protein content makes duckweed an important food source for waterfowl. |
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The most abundant and widespread of all waterfowl, the mallard is also the most hunted game bird. |
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Large birds including ptarmigan and waterfowl are the most common prey item of the Gyrfalcon. |
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The total population of seabirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds may exceed a million birds. |
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The central feature of the refuge, however, is the diversity and abundance of waterfowl and prairie birds. |
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Habitat seemed the next best criterion to search by, since many waterfowl shy away from inland bodies of water. |
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The actual impact of Mute Swans on native waterfowl and their habitats in North America is poorly known. |
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Clinically normal waterfowl and sea birds may introduce the virus into flocks. |
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Lowering the water levels in spring stimulated emergent vegetation and raising levels in late summer maintained waterfowl feeding areas. |
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And practiced duck hunters occasionally kill waterfowl over 80 yards away with a 12 gauge shotgun. |
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We saw lots of waterfowl, mostly Canada geese and mallards with the odd Gadwall. |
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Birders generally watch shorebirds in summer, raptors in autumn, and waterfowl in winter. |
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A modest duck pond becomes exciting when one realizes that not all waterfowl are Mallards and Canada Geese. |
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The youth-only waterfowl season is part of an effort to introduce young people into the recreation of waterfowling. |
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At the jhils the various waterfowl are nesting and each one proclaims the fact by its allotted call. |
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They are keen hunters with acute vision and feed primarily on small birds and mammals, waterfowl, and reportedly, even bats. |
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The region is a ecological funnel through which millions of waterfowl, raptors and neotropical birds pass each year. |
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You can watch eagles and loons, warblers that migrate here, dickey birds, and waterfowl. |
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Texas has youth-only autumn hunting seasons for squirrel, whitetail deer, Rio Grande turkey and waterfowl. |
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Within Myrtle Grove, the forest along Mattawoman Creek is home to the barred owl, various songbirds, wood ducks, and other waterfowl. |
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We put two ponds on the property which attracts mallard ducks, wood ducks and a variety of waterfowl. |
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Oil extraction will adversely affect millions of migratory waterfowl and golden eagles, as well as polar bears, caribou and bowhead whales. |
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The western carvers produced decoys solely for the purpose of luring waterfowl. |
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In previous studies of waterfowl, we used field candlers to age embryos in eggs because candlers are a rapid, simple, and accurate method. |
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The water's crawling with the larvae of brine flies and midges these waterfowl love. |
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Gotta love a February snipe hunt, in the rice fields that were only a short time ago flooded for waterfowl. |
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Lead shot should not be used for any shooting over wetlands important for feeding waterfowl. |
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Mill Creek foraging parties may have opportunistically harvested a number of resources from these wetlands including nesting waterfowl, muskrats, and arrowhead tubers. |
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These are only a few of many places to try your hand with waterfowl. |
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We were baffled by a waterfowl just like this one back in September. |
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Now that late fall has settled in, waterfowl are the main attraction. |
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Bird watcher Al Grass says waterfowl, raptors and songbirds can be spotted at Maplewood Flats because it is a critical wintering habitat for many species of birds. |
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Wood pigeon, pheasant, partridge, grouse, peacocks, hares, wild rabbits, and waterfowl are all dietary staples. |
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But the splendid Arctic goose is popular in waterfowl collections. |
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The area is home to a variety of other birds, including nesting bald eagles, hawks, owls, bluebirds and several other songbirds, wild turkeys, herons, and waterfowl. |
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Recent changes in the distribution of waterfowl species have been noted, such as a decrease of baldpates and swans, and a concomitant rapid increase of pintails. |
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He cleaned the waterfowl expertly and made a fire with a box of tinder and a collection of dried sticks on the flat top of an exposed boulder embedded into the earth. |
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In the migratory season, waterfowl of different varieties, thousands of sandpipers and shanks and varieties of ducks flock to this feeding ground. |
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One of the most attractive of our waterfowl, the goose-like shelduck is renowned for its spectacular moult gatherings along the northern coast of Germany. |
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What if you're like me and only occasionally hunt waterfowl and mostly hunt upland birds like dove, quail, chukar and shoot recreational skeet and sporting clays? |
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While there is no scientific data to support this contention, there is evidence that all recreational boating, including sailing, can disturb waterfowl. |
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The one unfrozen pond at the preserve was overflowing with waterfowl. |
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And the hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl that stop there every winter include mallards, canvasback ducks, blue-winged and green-winged teals, and wood ducks. |
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The seeds of pennywort are used occasionally as food by waterfowl. |
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About three dozen boating fatalities per year involve waterfowl hunters. |
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Swimmers' itch, also called cercarial dermatitis, is an itchy rash caused by certain parasites that normally live on waterfowl and freshwater snails. |
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For the next many weeks, the Gulf Coast sky will be a constantly changing tableau of hawks and doves, vultures and vireos, flycatchers and hummingbird, warblers and waterfowl. |
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Brown rats and water voles, as well as muskrats and waterfowl are the main sources of food for wildcats in the Kuban delta. |
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Early fall found me pursuing waterfowl and sharptail grouse in Watrous, Saskatchewan. |
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The more people you have trying to apply the listing guidelines fairly and consistently, the bigger the horizontal waterfowl alignment challenge. |
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Both reserves are important for tern species and a number of wading birds and waterfowl. |
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Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, waterfowl and aquatic mammals. |
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This is especially common in some waterfowl, which shift from one flyway to another. |
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In fact, waterfowl numbers overall quadrupled after large areas of the river became covered with hydrilla, milfoil and native aquatic vegetation. |
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Bones of many other animal species were also present, including horses and migratory waterfowl. |
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Swans are the largest extant members of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and are among the largest flying birds. |
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Penetration is penetration, whether of air, sheetrock, ballistic gel or waterfowl. |
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Sometimes known as Lava Geese, nenes are the only waterfowl adapted for life on lava flows and have mostly lost the webbing between their toes. |
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Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese. |
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Specklebellies laughed and cackled, while Canada geese tried to keep up with the trumpet of tundra swans in a chorus of waterfowl music. |
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An ecological study of the Common Raven at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and its effects on the nesting success of selected waterfowl. |
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Seabird migration is similar in pattern to those of the waders and waterfowl. |
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Many hunters still call them oldsquaws, which is what North American waterfowl managers used to call them as well. |
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The peculiar presbyornithids were used to argue for a close relationship between flamingos, waterfowl, and waders. |
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Among waterfowl, scoter populations have fallen by more than 80 percent and scaup by more than 50 percent. |
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There was a time when waterfowl biologists proclaimed that, unlike lesser snows, greater snow geese are not dimorphic. |
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One of our most beautiful native waterfowl is the seldom-encountered ruddy duck. |
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Aircraft struck virtually every species of waterfowl, including one Eurasian wigeon, one harlequin duck and a Barrow's goldeneye. |
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Wildlife officials say the acquisition would benefit streaked horned larks, Western meadowlarks and other grassland waterfowl. |
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Important waterfowl species of the Norwegian Sea are puffin, kittiwake and guillemot. |
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The Final Approach Web site has been redesigned with several new features for serious waterfowl hunters. |
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This vast engineering project devastated a critical flyway for 40 species of migrating waterfowl. |
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Zebra mussels, the pipe-clogging scourge of the Great Lakes, also act as an important food source for local waterfowl and fish, for example. |
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We've all seen roosters, deer, waterfowl, boats, pigs, cows and other items as weathervanes on barns and houses around the country. |
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We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos. |
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In 2007, our national influenza surveillance resulted in isolation of 4 swine-like TR-H3N2 viruses from migratory waterfowl in north-central South Dakota. |
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In the past, it has hosted up to 30,000 banded stilt, which are listed as vulnerable under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, and 40,000 waterfowl. |
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In the midwestern United States, they are not uncommon during winter near reservoirs and wildlife refuges that provide foraging opportunities at waterfowl concentrations. |
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They provide important breeding habitats for many species of waterfowl. |
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Influenza A viruses and avian paramyxoviruses are important pathogens of poultry worldwide, and both commonly occur in wild waterfowl, especially ducks in the family Anatidae. |
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The final host is the waterfowl or mammal that consumes the shrimp. |
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And the common eider is a sea duck waterfowl managers know little about. |
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This is the wintering ground of sandhill cranes, hawks, falcons, Canada geese, great blue herons, and abundant waterfowl, including mallards and canvasbacks. |
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Various waterfowl use the coastal areas as a migratory staging area. |
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Also on the agenda are Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge, clams and waterfowl. |
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The trumpeter swan is the largest species of North American waterfowl. |
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During the winter months we host thousands of waterfowl, wigeon, potchard, barnacle geese and greylag geese make for quite a spectacle on the reserve. |
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