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Identifier: importantamerica00forb (find matches)
Title: Important American game birds; their ranges, habits and the hunting
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929, comp E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Hunt, Lynn Bogue, illus
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: Wilmington, Del., E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ern Maryland. Appar-ently it is extending its bleeding range westward. In the Gulf States its place is taken in the breedingseason by those closely allied resident dusky ducks, the Florida duck and the mottled duck, which inthe field it is difficult to distinguish from the black duck. The resident black duck of Mexico is Anasdiazi. The black duck winters from Nova Scotia south to southern Louisiana and Colorado, and inmigration goes west to Nebraska and Kansas. The black duck originally was a daylight feeder, and still feeds in daylight where it is undisturbedby the hunter; but persecution has taught this and other ducks to seek safety on lake or ocean duringthe day, particularly in the shooting season, and to resort after sunset to small ponds and marsheswhere they feed. The black duck, like the mallard, will breed almost anywhere, if it can secure free-dom from persecution. It naturally nests near water, but will go half a mile or more from water and 6 IMPORTANT AMERICAN- GAME BIRDS
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MALLARD IMPORTANT-AMERICAN- GAME BIRDS nest under a bush in a dry pasture. It will breed on a little island in a pond in a city park or in thesloughs of the Labrador wilderness, and will feed with equal facility on wild rice on an inland river,or on shell-fish on the tide flats near the sea. The little ones seek the water soon after they leave theshell, and there they swim about, usually in shallow water at first, and close to or within the coverof sedge and water plants. When a dog or fox scents the little family and rushes to seize them, thewatchful mother throws herself in his way, fluttering like a crippled bird, and thus leads him off a longdistance, while the little ones submerge and steal away to the thickest cover. The black ducks sight and hearing are perfect. Some ducks will not notice a man if he keepsstill, but it is hard to deceive the black duck in that way. One should be well hidden, and it is difficultto creep up on black ducks down wind, not because of the sense of sm

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