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...black ducks-the supply will hardly be plentiful, but not worse than last fall. Happily, a late, wet spring helped restore some of the breeding grounds where these species concentrate. To help the mallard, however, hunters will be sharply restricted: no more than three a day along the Pacific flyway, two along the Atlantic, Mississippi and Central routes...
...important flyway of migratory birds, says the Audubon Society, passes over Manhattan Island, and the birds have been having increasing trouble with man-made mountains poking their tops into their right of way. Birds generally fly at night, and when the sky is clear, they keep well above New York's highest buildings. But a low ceiling of turbulent clouds often forces them down to levels where they may tangle fatally with glass and brick and steel. Powerful lights on the tops of buildings seem to attract and confuse the birds. Sometimes the sidewalks around the Empire State have...
...Naturalist Terres it was an old story. The 1,472-ft. Empire State Building, which is on the migratory flyway that leads down the U.S. East Coast, is a major obstruction to bird navigation. Migrating birds lack the dependable blind-flying instruments that enable an airplane pilot to fly with equanimity through dense clouds. Preferring to fly under a low ceiling, they often crash by hundreds against the Empire State. For some unexplained reason, they do not seem to hit mountains, and Manhattan skyscrapers almost as high as the Empire State seldom kill many birds...
...Dinners. Southward along the Mississippi flyway, which is traveled by the thickest squadrons of ducks and gunned by almost half the nation's 2,000,000 duck hunters, the shooting was the best in years. Hunters from all over the U.S. began to converge on Stuttgart, Ark., which brags that its flooded woodlands and rice fields make it the duck capital of the world...
Klamath Falls sits astride the Pacific flyway, which will be flown by some 30 million ducks this fall. Some of its marshes and lakes are fed by water that bubbles at 200° from hot mineral springs-and ducks like to break their journey there. For a lot of ducks, it's the last stop...