Do black ducks and wood ducks habituate to aircraft disturbance?

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1135-1142

  Conomy, John T ^a   Dubovsky, James A ^b   Collazo, Jaime A ^a   Fleming, W James ^a,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft disturbance; Aix sponsa; American black duck; Anas rubripes; Behavior; Habituation; North Carolina; Winter; Wood duck

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; AIRCRAFT; DISTURBANCE; WATERFOWL;

NORTH CAROLINA; PINEY ISLAND; USA;

AIX; AIX SPONSA; ANAS; ANAS RUBRIPES; ANAS SP.; ANSER; ANSERIFORMES;

EID: 0031855105     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802568     Document Type: Article

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