Front:
UES.
CANVASBACK
Female
Male
Back:
Subject 9
BESTORE
PROTECT • 5085629
AMERICA'S
RESOURCES
WILDLIFE
THE CANVASBACK
bers of Canvasbacks so
(Nyroca valisineria)
alarmingly that it has been a
matter of concern to many people.
Canvasbacks riding the waves, their Although Canvasbacks are found
white backs flashing and rusty heads throughout a large part of the United
catching the sunlight are as handsome States during migration, and along both
as any of the waterfowl. On the wing, coasts in winter, they nest principally in
heading into the wind, their long necks the interior and western parts of North
and long bills give them a slender look America, in prairie regions, from Alaska,
as if the wings were set far back. Saskatchewan and western Manitoba
In recent years, drought, drainage and south to Oregon, Nevada, northern New
other agencies have reduced the num- Mexico and Minnesota.
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CITY
Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
