Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Human Disturbances to Waterfowl
Annotated Bibliography
55. Dzubin, A., and J. B. Gollop. 1972. Aspects of mallard breeding ecology
in Canadian parkland and grassland. Pages 113-152 in Population ecology of migratory
birds, papers from a symposium held at the Migratory Bird Population Station,
Laurel, Maryland, 9-10 October 1969. U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife
Service, Wildlife Research Report 2.
The authors believed that wild mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) breeding
under natural conditions are poor subjects on which to accumulate statistically
sound population parameters. They believed this species is particularly sensitive
to human interference, especially during brood-rearing.
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