Ducks, Geese, and Swans: 2-Volume Set

by Janet Kear

Wildfowl 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198546459
• ISBN13: 9780198546450
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 930 Pages
• Weight: 6.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.8" x 10.1"