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New. The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expected that the first European settlers in North America quickly deemed the double-crested cormorant a competitor for fishing stock and undertook a relentless drive to destroy the birds. This enormously important book explores the roots of human-cormorant conflicts, dispels myths about the birds, and offers the first comprehensive assessment of the policies that have been developed to manage the double-crested cormorant in the twenty-first century. Conservation biologist Linda Wires provides a unique synthesis of the cultural, historical, scientific, and political elements of the cormorant's story. She discusses the amazing late-twentieth-century population recovery, aided by protection policies and environment conservation, but also the subsequent U.S. federal policies under which hundreds of thousands of the birds have been killed. In a critique of the science, management, and ethics underlying the double-crested cormorant's treatment today, Wires exposes 'management' as a euphemism for persecution and shows that the current strategies of aggressive predator control are outdated and unsupported by science. With Original Illustrations by Barry Kent MacKayLinda Wires is a conservation biologist who focuses on monitoring and issues involving waterbirds. She lives in Minneapolis. Barry Kent MacKay is a bird artist, illustrator, and activist who lives in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Frontispiece. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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It is appalling that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has been co-opted politically to function as an agent of extermination for the double-crested cormorant, despite 100 years of F&W Service studies that indicate the cormorant has little or no effect on game or commercial fishing. Certainly no where near the effect that humans have had.
Not an easy read, as the author is painstaking in her documentation for the way this cormorant is being treated. This book can be frustrating, even infuriating, to those who believe wildlife management should be based on science not politics. A worthy selection, though, for readers with an interest in conservation.
