The Online Books Page

Waterfowl

Here are entered works on swimming gamebirds such as coots, ducks, and geese. Scientific works on ducks, geese, and swans as a family are entered under Anatidae. Works on aquatic birds in general, including sea birds, shore birds, and waterfowl, are entered under Water birds.

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• Game and game-birds
• Water birds

• Waterfowl -- Behavior
• Waterfowl -- Conservation
• Waterfowl -- Diseases
• Waterfowl -- Effect of human beings on
• Waterfowl -- Habitat
• Waterfowl -- Mortality

• Water-fowl

• Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior (originally published 1965; electronic edition 2008), by Paul A. Johnsgard (PDF at unl.edu)

• Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1947), by Rachel Carson, illust. by Shirley A. Briggs and Katherine L. Howe (PDF at unl.edu)

• Bear River: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1950), by Vanez T. Wilson and Rachel Carson, illust. by Bob Hines (PDF at unl.edu)

• Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1947), by Rachel Carson, illust. by Katherine L. Howe (PDF at unl.edu)

• Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1947), by Rachel Carson, illust. by Katherine L. Howe (PDF at unl.edu)

• Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1947), by Rachel Carson, illust. by Shirley A. Briggs and Katherine L. Howe (PDF at unl.edu)

• A Review of the Problem of Lead Poisoning in Waterfowl, by Glen C. Sanderson and Frank C. Bellrose
  • zipped HTML at Wayback Machine (some other links might not work)
  • HTML at eku.edu (zip file link may not work)

• Human Disturbances of Waterfowl: An Annotated Bibliography, by Robert B. Dahlgren and Carl E. Korschgen (zipped HTML at Wayback Machine)

• American Wildcelery (Vallisneria Americana): Ecological Considerations for Restoration, by Carl E. Korschgen and William L. Green (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Review of the Problem of Lead Poisoning in Waterfowl, by Glen C. Sanderson and Frank C. Bellrose
  • zipped HTML at Wayback Machine (some other links might not work)
  • HTML at eku.edu (zip file link may not work)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Complete Wildfowler (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1912), by Stanley Duncan and C. Ranger Gull (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia, by Denis D. Lyell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wildlife in Alaska: An Ecological Reconnaissance (originally published 1953; reprinted Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972), by A. Starker Leopold and F. Fraser Darling (page images at HathiTrust)

• California Fish and Game (partial serial archives)

• Lethal Dietary Toxicities of Environmental Pollutants to Birds (Washington: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1975), by Elwood F. Hill, Robert G. Heath, James W. Spann, and Joseph D. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lethal Dietary Toxicities of Environmental Pollutants to Birds (Washington: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1975), by Elwood F. Hill, Robert G. Heath, James W. Spann, and Joseph D. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-Western Provinces of India (London: H.S. King and Co., 1876), by John Henry Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wildlife Law Enforcement (first edition; Dubuque: W. C. Brown Co., 1956), by William F. Sigler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wildlife Law Enforcement (first edition; Dubuque: W. C. Brown Co., 1956), by William F. Sigler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by William T. Hornaday (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Laws Relating to Fish, Oysters and Game (Olympia, WA: E. L. Boardman, public printer, 1911), by Washington (State), ed. by Jno. L. Riseland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• You and Your Wild Game (Oregon State University extension circular #1176; 1984), by Ray A. Field and Carolyn A. Raab (PDF at Oregon State)

• The Boke of Saint Albans (London: E. Stock, ca. 1901), by Juliana Berners, contrib. by William Blades
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (first edition; London: John van Voorst, 1852), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page images at burtoniana.org)

• The Boy Trapper (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1878), by Harry Castlemon (illustrated HTML at hiwaay.net)

• The Hapgood Family, Descendents of Shadrach, 1656-1898 (new edition, with supplement; Boston: The compiler, 1898), by Warren Hapgood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Aging Big Game (Bulletin 513R; Laramie: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Wyoming, 1977), by Ray A. Field (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• You and Your Wild Game (Oregon State University extension circular #1176; 1984), by Ray A. Field and Carolyn A. Raab (PDF at Oregon State)

• Science and the Endangered Species Act (1995), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Lady Chatterley's Lover (based on the 1928 Florence edition; Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, n.d.), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)

• Managing Canada Geese in Urban Environments: A Technical Guide (2000), by Arthur E. Smith, Scott R. Craven, and Paul D. Curtis (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• The Sea and Its Wonders (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sea and Its Wonders (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1884), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Natural History of Water Birds (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bird Communities at Sea Off California: 1975 to 1983, by Kenneth T. Briggs, William Breck Tyler, David B. Lewis, and David R. Carlson (PDF at unm.edu)

• Bird Communities at Sea Off California: 1975 to 1983, by Kenneth T. Briggs, William Breck Tyler, David B. Lewis, and David R. Carlson (PDF at unm.edu)

• Bird Communities at Sea Off California: 1975 to 1983, by Kenneth T. Briggs, William Breck Tyler, David B. Lewis, and David R. Carlson (PDF at unm.edu)

• British Sea Birds (London: Sands and Foster, 1896), by Charles Dixon, illust. by Charles Whymper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Tropical Seabird Biology (1984), ed. by Ralph W. Schreiber (PDF at unm.edu)

• Shorebirds in Marine Environments, by Frank A. Pitelka (PDF at unm.edu)