Ducks, Geese and Swans Volume 1 - Janet Kear - OUP H/B First Printing (#T2)

Bird Families of the World.\nDicks, Geese and Swans - Volume 1.\nGeneral Chapters and Species.\n\nThis Listing is for the above Hard Back Book edited by Janet Kear.\nPublisher Information:\nWildfowl and screamers belong to a highly diverse family of birds, confined to watery habitats. They are amongst the most attractive of birds and are very well-known to man, who has domesticated them, used their feathers for warm clothing and ornamentation, admired their flight, courtship and migration, caught them for food, maintained them in captivity for pleasure, and written about their doings in delightful children's stories, from Mother Goose to Jemima Puddleduck and Donald Duck. They occur throughout the world except Antarctica. Some are faithful to the same partner for life, others for only the few minutes of copulation. In some species, male and female make devoted parents, and yet there is one within the group whose female lays her eggs in the nests of others and never incubates. Diving .