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The Triumphant Trumpeter: Once Reduced To A Few Bevies, This Magnificent Swan Is On The Road To Recovery, Paul A. Johnsgard
The Triumphant Trumpeter: Once Reduced To A Few Bevies, This Magnificent Swan Is On The Road To Recovery, Paul A. Johnsgard
Papers in Ornithology
Largest of all the swans and heaviest of North American birds, the trumpeter swan is on the increase. Once common and widespread over much of the western United States, the bird was a winter resident of the lower reaches of the Mississippi Valley, Louisiana, and Texas. During the last century, however, trade in swan-skins—-used to make powder puffs and writing and drawing quills—-and the sale of eggs to collectors had a heavy impact on the species. In the period from 1853 to 1877, for example, London sales of trumpeter swan-skins imported through the Hudson's Bay Company totaled nearly 18,000, an …
Review Of The Pheasants Of The World, Paul A. Johnsgard
Review Of The Pheasants Of The World, Paul A. Johnsgard
Papers in Ornithology
This book, one of Delacour's three major monographs on avian families (the others being the Anatidae and, with Dean Amadon, The Cracidae), was originally published in 1951 but went out of print in the late 196Os, when it quickly became a collector's item. At the request of the World Pheasant Association, an avicultural organization concerned with galliform conservation, Delacour undertook a revision of the book, and a new colored plate has been prepared by R. David Digby. That Delacour, now in his late 80's, should undertake such a project at all is a testimony to the amazing vigor and enthusiasm …