The double-crested cormorant
Subtitle: plight of a feathered pariah
By: Linda R. Wires ; with original illustrations by Barry Kent MacKay
Contributors: MacKay, Barry Kent, 1943- illustrator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780300187113
Subjects: Double-crested cormorant; Bird pests; Bird populations; Conservation; Fishery management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. What are cormorants? Aristotle's raven : an introduction to cormorants; title: The double-crested cormorant; title: Part II. The populations and the perceptions, then and now. European colonization and the making of a pariah; title: From Audubon to conservation : the first wave of recovery; title: Reversal of fortunes : another decline and the second recovery; title: Part III. The economic and political landscape of the cormorant, 1965 to the present. Fish ponds and reservoirs : the context for conflict on the wintering grounds; title: Animal damage control and the first standing depredation order for cormorants; title: Conflicts on the breeding grounds; title: The second standing depredation order for cormorants; title: A half million and counting : implementation of management policies in the United States; title: Looking north to Canada : limitations to management beyond the 49th parallel; title: Part IV. The science, management, and ethics of today : review and critique. Untangling the mysteries between predator and prey; title: Adaptive management : a process gone awry; title: Back to the wintering grounds : liberties with science and policy; title: Engineer or destroyer : the case of the catastrophic ecosystem flip; title: Opening Pandora's box : some ethical implications of cormorant management; title: Afterword : what future for cormorants?