Word: wildfowl
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Last year's law caught sportsmen napping. Many insisted there was no shortage. Others, admitting a shortage in the West and a general scarcity of canvasbacks, redheads and other divers, insisted that in the East most wildfowl were as plentiful as ever, black ducks more so. Editor Raymond Prunty ("Ray") Holland of Field & Stream argued that if a duck cannot find food in one place it will go somewhere else. To raise money for conservation the American Game Association introduced a bill in Congress providing for a $1 Federal hunting license, met a counter proposal from the More Game Birds...
...geese were flying in three strata. Dr. Pearson estimated there were between 600,000 and a million of them. Because they migrate so quickly hunters get less than 1,000 of the two millions that winter in Louisiana. Audubon experts are satisfied that the blue goose is one American wildfowl that has not decreased in numbers in recent years...
...Only about half the normal number of ducks will fly south this season. This is the third consecutive disastrous breeding year. Unless we have what might be called a moratorium on wildfowl shooting in this year of crisis I am afraid the ducks will go down into extinction...
...North and West to ten weeks, in the southern Atlantic States to eight weeks: and further reduces the number of live goose decoys allowed to not more than ten. Cause for the change: serious drought in nesting areas, reported to have reduced this year's hatch of wildfowl to the smallest on record...
...series of resolutions which he thought would improve the ideals of the society. He called for a backing of the McNary-Haugen bill to make permanent the new Federal bag limit of 15 wild ducks per day. He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys. He wanted a Federal limit of eight weeks for the open season on wildfowl...