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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