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Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

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Or, a Tufted Duck or Cackling Goose. Ducks, swans, and geese may initially appear easy to identify. Plate 29, Mallard and Mexican Duck. Probably a duck calendar and a map of migratory routes would help. Plate 40: Hybrid dabbling ducks (a continuation of Plate 39). Plate 37, Eurasian, Green-winged, and Baikal Teal.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp!

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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The Common Pochard is not just a scarce breeding bird, but the second most numerous wintering duck in Serbia and it will be a hard battle to protect it against the strong hunting lobby. Hunting is also significant during migration and in its wintering range; with an annual toll in France computed at c. 40,000 birds.” (The

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