Page 51 - Our Vanishing Wild Life
P. 51
CANDIDATES FOR OBLIVION 29
WOOD DUCK
Regularly Killed as "Food" in 15 States
And how is it with the other states that number the wood-duck in their avian faunas ? I am asham-
edtotell; butitisnecessary that the truth should be known.
Surely we will find that if the other states have not the grace to protect this bird on account of its exquisite beauty they will not penalize it by extra long open seasons.
A number of them have taken pains to provide extra long OPEN seasons on this species, usually of five or sixmonths!! Andthisfor a bird so exquisitely beau- tiful that shooting it for the table is like dining on birds of paradise. Here is a partial list of the
Wood-Duck-Eating States (1912) Georgia kills and eats the Wood-duck from
