Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half a mile south of California's San Mateo bridge on which he had been murdered last month (TIME, Nov. 27), kidnapped Brooke Hart's body was found in five feet of water by duck hunters one morning last week. Employes in his father's San Jose department store identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call...
...statement sounded conservative to U. S. gunners and ammunition makers, already shocked by a rumor spreading throughout the land. The rumor, far graver than those of possible regulatory measures which worried sportsmen last summer (TIME, Aug. 28), was that a Federal ban would next year fall on all duck-shooting...
Because fewer ducks are winging South each season, the Foundation has been inclined to discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline. Last July it sent researchers on a 3400-mi. jaunt through the heart of North America's chief wild duck nursery-the prairies of North Dakota and Montana in the U. S., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta in Canada-to find out what was happening to the ducks before they started South. The surveyors found the region, from a duck's viewpoint, in a sorry state. Where ducks once...
...agricultural region has become not only inhospitable but actually dangerous to ducks. Rains early in the breeding season encourage them to settle, raise their families on shallow ponds, sloughs and potholes. Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...
...More duck sanctuaries throughout...