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Experiences with home grown wood ducks Item Info
- Title:
- Experiences with home grown wood ducks
- Creator (Person):
- Leopold, Frederic, 1895-1989
- Date Created:
- 1965-12-08/1965-12-09
- Description:
- A paper describing Frederic Leopold's wood duck nesting project which was later presented at Wood Duck Management and Research: A Symposium which was held on December 8-9, 1965. The paper covers several topics including the following: nest site selection, egg laying, predatory animals, egg incubation, hatching and departure of the ducklings, and how to handle orphaned ducklings. A table for the years 1943-1965 listing the number of nesting boxes available and used, the number of eggs laid and hatched, and the number of nests destroyed by predators is also included.
- Subject (Topic):
- Birds--Habitat Birds--Nests Predatory animals Eggs--Incubation Ducks--Counting Ducklings Wood duck--Behavior Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
- Subject (Person):
- Hawkins, A. S. (Arthur S.)
- Location:
- Burlington
- Latitude:
- 40.80754
- Longitude:
- -91.11292
- Language:
- eng
- Source:
- Frederic Leopold papers
- Call Number:
- MS 113
- Finding Aid Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9645f
- Contributing Institution:
- Iowa State University. Special Collections and University Archives
- Publisher:
- Iowa State University. Library
- Extent:
- 14 pages
- Genre:
- lecture notes reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Digital Collection Title:
- Frederic Leopold collection
- Digital Collection Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9cj87k56
- Related Resource:
- Avian Archives of Iowa Online (avIAn)
- Avian Identifier:
- 3105
- Identifier:
- leopoldfrederic24
- Item Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9rx93c8w
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- Preferred Citation:
- "Experiences with home grown wood ducks", Frederic Leopold Collection, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9rx93c8w
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