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Word: ringneck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Three Ducks Less | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...limit of 15 is continued. The possession limit is double the bag limit. There is a limit of ten to a bag on canvasback, redhead, scaup, ringneck, all teals, gadwalls and shovellers. The bag limit on eider ducks is five. Ruddy ducks and buffle-heads are added to the protected list. The bag limit on mourning doves is reduced from 25 to 18. The limit on live decoys (last year, ten) is 25, except in California, where they are protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Months' Ducking | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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