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This heavily illustrated book aimed to be a comprehensive guide to the carved wooden duck decoy. Used by early American waterfowl hunters, this type of decoy was promoted by the author as a form of folk art. The book is considered by art historians to be the first on the subject, and was a bible to decoy collectors throughout the 20th century.
Barber's book Wild Fowl Decoys was the first book on decoys as collectible objects. It was followed in 1965 by folk art dealer Adele Earnest's The Art of the Decoy and American Bird Decoys by collector Wm. F. Mackey. [15] Collectors typically focus on particular categories of decoys, such as working, decorative, antique, or contemporary.
Blue duck: Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 36 Flying steamer duck: Tachyeres patachonicus (King, PP, 1831) 37 Fuegian steamer duck: Tachyeres pteneres (Forster, JR, 1844) 38 Falkland steamer duck: Tachyeres brachypterus (Latham, 1790) 39 Chubut steamer duck: Tachyeres leucocephalus Humphrey & Thompson, 1981: 40 Torrent duck ...
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Flying Ducks is a 1970 or 1983 sculpture by Tom Hardy, installed on the west façade of Lawrence Hall, on the University of Oregon campus, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Description and history
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The Birds of the Western Palearctic (full title Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic; often referred to by the initials BWP) is a nine-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of the western portion of the Palearctic zoogeographical region.
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