Word: canvasbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three other changes made by the Survey were certainly not calculated to win the Roosevelt Administration votes on the Atlantic seaboard. To the list of protected birds it added Atlantic brant, canvasback and redhead ducks. Daily bag limits for 1936 remain as in 1935 - ten ducks of all species and four geese or brant - with only one day's bag allowed in possession at any time...
...look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat exasperate his customers by including only four color prints, and one of those a too-streamlined conception of canvasback, but the black & white pages are made warm by the artist's pencilled notes, ''Yellow Legs, Fire Island-The Good Old Days!"; "Wings of the River Ducks, Monroe Marshes, 1909. All Drakes"; "Pintails-They come in like no other ducks." Best picture in the book: "Woodcock-October...
Last year's season of two months is retained. Only major change in this year's laws is a lowering of the daily bag limit on wild ducks from 15 to 12. Of these not more than eight may be canvasback, redhead, scaup, teal, shoveler or gadwall. (Last year's limit on this list, which included ringneck, was ten.) Brant may be shot on the Pacific Coast, not on the Atlantic where their principal food, eel grass, has almost disappeared (TIME, Aug. 21). Cackling geese are unprotected for the first time since...
...where he could learn facts about them which naturalists have been able only to surmise. In the September-October issue of Natural History, published this week, Lord Grey reveals many facts unknown to U. S. sportsmen & naturalists concerning the love-life of a distinguished native of North America, the canvasback duck (Nyroca valisineria...
...Lord Grey got a pair of canvasbacks, duck & drake, from two breeders who had raised them from U. S. eggs. They were pinioned and tame. For six months the birds showed no attachment for each other, then the duck began sitting on five eggs. Five young ducks were hatched, four lived to maturity. They were very shy, would not feed while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread...