Word: waterfowl
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...frozen marsh. "Hey, there's a blackback!" exclaimed their leader. "And look over there, some goldeneyes." Fighting through thick reeds and tall grass, the bird watchers soon spotted other feathered friends: half a dozen stout-bodied, short-necked diving ducks called white-winged scoters, another type of waterfowl known as an old-squaw, several large, double-crested cormorants, and finally an American kestrel. Exulted the leader: "You really get psyched by this...
...Dickey-Lincoln dam project would cost over $690 million, flood 88,000 acres of prime wilderness inhabited by thousands of deer, moose, beavers and waterfowl. It would also drown about $8 million worth of lumber and lumbering land. In addition, the inadequate water supply would seem to make it a very inefficient source of energy...
...more accidents occurred. Another Liberian tanker, the Daphne, ran aground off Puerto Rico and still another, the Olympic Games, grounded and suffered a hull puncture during a docking maneuver at Marcus Hook, Pa. Moving downstream in a slick 32 miles long, its cargo seeped into marshes, coating wintering waterfowl with a sticky layer of oil that matted their feathers and robbed them of their insulating properties. Tens of thousands of birds were endangered...
Silliest Goose. Made to order for the Osgood touch was a story about U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth Keating, who liked to feed the waterfowl on an embassy pond. When he left the New Delhi post last summer, Keating's staff put up a bronze plaque commemorating his acts of "compassion and devotion" to the birds. Then one Foreign Service man told a subordinate that a proliferation of such plaques would clutter the clean lines of the Edward Durell Stone-designed embassy building. So the eager-to-please underling ordered the inscription sanded off the plaque, a bureaucratic half...
...another man's backyard pest. That modern-age anomaly is the crux of a dispute between the National Audubon Society and Louisiana's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild Life. Arguing that a surplus of alligators was eating up such income-producing wildlife as muskrats and waterfowl, Louisiana reopened the swamplands in Cameron Parish to hunters last fall after an eight-year ban. In 13 days, 1,347 alligator hides were turned over to state authorities to be auctioned off to private businessmen. The Audubon Society, which long ago branched out from birds to the protection...