Housing For Wood Ducks Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Housing for Wood Ducks The'ben is slightly smaller and more somber in color. She has a gray-brown head and body and a white throat and eye ring. What She lacks in color she makes up in sound, for She is much more vocal than the male. Unlike other waterfowl, the wood duck limits its range principally to deciduous forest areas of the eastern half of North America. It is at home in suitable wooded habitats from Florida to New Brunswick, and from southeastern Texas to northwestern Minnesota. A small breeding group inhabits the west coast from central California into southern British Columbia. The wood duck is the only waterfowl breeding in numbers in Illinois. Here it breeds from the cypress swamps at the southern tip of the state to the tamarack bogs at the northern border, and from the Mississippi River on the west to the Wabash River on the east. In the region of the Illinois River valley near Havana, it reaches its greatest abundance in the state. Few areas in the nation have had as dense breeding populations as this area. The wood duck has undoubtedly suffered more adversities than have most other ducks. By the early l9oo's, the combined effect of habitat destruction and overshooting had so seriously depleted its numbers that conservationists feared the Species would be exterminated. The passage Of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 gave the woodie complete protection from legal shooting. This protection was continued until 1941, when in 15 states a new legal provision permitted one wood duck in the daily bag or in possession of each hunter during the waterfowl hunting season. This legal provision was later extended to most other states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.