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Description: |
301 pages : illustrations, maps, tables ; 26 cm |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Travels of waterfowl. Patterns of local movement ; Learned response to the environment ; The visual world ; The function of memory ; The aerial environment ; Awareness of time and space -- Migrations of waterfowl. The cycle of migration ; Flight trails south ; Homeward migration ; The classification of waterfowl travel ; The dimensions of travel ; The influence of bad weather ; Overseas migration ; Magnetic and radio fields ; Awareness of direction -- Traditions of waterfowl. Biological traditions ; Building new traditions ; Tradition and racial isolation ; Broken traditions. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and idnex. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Subject: With the combined talents of naturalist, writer, and artist, H. Albert Hochbaum captures the varying moods of earth and sky and spirit and flight. For many years as director of the Delta Waterfowl Research Station in Manitoba, Canada, he has observed the ways of the waterfowl. In this book he portrays and discusses the flights and habits of the birds he has watched in that vast marsh country - the wild ducks, geese, and swans of North America. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Hochbaum, H. Albert (Hans Albert), 1911- Travels and traditions of waterfowl. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1955] (OCoLC)767784306 |