Ecology and Management of the Mourning Dove

Ecology and Management of the Mourning Dove PDF

Author: Thomas S. Baskett

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780811719407

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Nicely published (apparently with subsidy) by the Wildlife Management Institute, Washington, D.C. Comprehensively deals with the most numerous, widespread, and heavily hunted of North American gamebirds. Among the topics covered in 29 contributions: classification and distributions, migration, nesting, reproductive strategy, growth and maturation, feeding habits, diseases, survey procedures, population trends, care of captive mourning doves, and hunting. The final chapter identifies research and management needs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Upland Game Bird Carving

Upland Game Bird Carving PDF

Author: Rosalyn Daisey

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780887403491

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Rosayln moves to game birds with this volume, offering instructions for five carving projects: the male mourning dove in flight, a perched female dove, a female woodcock, her chicks, and the challenging bobwhite quail. Complete instructions with generous and beautiful illustrations take the reader through all five projects step-by-step, from carving through texturing and painting.

Mourning Dove Capture and Banding

Mourning Dove Capture and Banding PDF

Author: Henry M. Reeves

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Banding plays an extremely important role in the management of the mourning dove, the most important single migratory game bird species in North America in terms of hunter harvest.