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Waterfowl hunting is the practice of hunting aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and other waterfowls or shorebirds for sport and meat. Waterfowl are hunted in crop fields where they feed, or in areas with bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands , sloughs , or coasts. [ 1 ]
A brief overview from abstract of the published paper shows that "clutch size and hunting strategies have been proved to be the most important variables in shaping distribution areas, and also the geographic dissimilarities may mask important relationships between life history traits and migratory behaviours.
Hunting seasons for the yellow-billed duck are planned so as not to overlap with the breeding season, which is around July. However, the exact breeding season varies annually based on the climate. [7] Hunting is a major cause of death for the yellow-billed duck with past analysis showing over 25% of duck deaths were due to shooting. [3]
Yakky Doodle is a fictional anthropomorphic yellow duckling with green wings, who appears for the first time in prototype form on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958 and on The Quick Draw McGraw Show in 1960, and in regular design on The Yogi Bear Show in 1961, on his own segment. [1]
Yellow-headed blackbird. Order: Passeriformes Family: Icteridae. The icterids are a group of small to medium-sized, often colorful passerine birds restricted to the New World and include the grackles, New World blackbirds and New World orioles. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red.
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The duck's common name is based on early European inhabitants of North America's assertion that its back was a canvas-like color. [4] In other languages it is just a white-backed duck; for example in French, morillon à dos blanc, or Spanish, pato lomo blanco. [5] In Mexico it is called pato coacoxtle. [6]
The New Zealand scaup is a diving duck which dives to look for aquatic plants, small fish, water snails, mussels and insects. [ 14 ] [ 13 ] It is sometimes seen with the Australian coot ( Fulica atra ); it is thought that the scaup takes advantage of the food stirred up by the coots as they fossick for shrimps. [ 13 ]