Home range and breeding biology of the shoveler / by H. J. Poston.: CW65-8/25E-PDF

"The breeding home ranges of eight colour-marked Shoveler (Anas clypeata) pairs which utilized irrigated grassland habitat near Strathmore, Alberta, each contained a "core area", a nest site, and several (3 to 13) "peripheral" ponds. Home ranges were between 20 and 128 acres in size, with a mean of 76 acres. Each core area was occupied 60 to 90 per cent of the time on the home range, and it appeared to supply basic requirements of food, loafing area and pair isolation"--Abstract, p. 5.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canadian Wildlife Service.
Title Home range and breeding biology of the shoveler / by H. J. Poston.
Series title Canadian Wildlife Service report series ; no. 25
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
Includes bibliographic references.
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service, 1974.
Author / Contributor Poston, H. J.
Description 49 p. : figures.
Catalogue number
  • CW65-8/25E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number CW65-8/25
Subject terms Aquatic birds
Animal populations
Habitats
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