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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Here’s a sample of how that section reads: “Ducks have 14-18 feathers (rectrices). I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. million waterfowl hunters in the U.S. Today there are an estimated 1.2

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. This is good stuff.

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