Volume 6, Number 8 · May 12, 1966
Water, Prey, and Game Birds
By David A. Bannerman
Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior
by Paul A. Johnsgard
Cornell, 378 pp., $10.00
Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America
by Alexander Wetmore. and others
National Geographic Society, 464 pp., $11.95
The Giant Canada Goose
by Harold C. Hanson
Southern Illinois, 226 pp., $9.75
Birds of Prey
by Philip Brown
Transatlantic Arts, 124 pp., $5.95
The Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior is a book which should have been reviewed in my country by Professor Niko Tinbergen of Oxford University. It is just up his street. But since it has fallen to the writer of this review to do so, he would preface his remarks by one made by Colonel Meinertzhagen in the Introduction to his Birds of Arabia: 'In case a reviewer troubles to read this introduction, let him first ask himself the question: Do I know more about this subject than the author? To be critical is easy; to be correct, not quite so easy.' There are few men with sufficient knowledge of live waterfowl combined with taxonomic and biological experience to review Professor Johnsgard's book as it undoubtedly merits, and the present reviewer is not one of them! He can therefore only call attention to what strikes him as being an outstanding contribution to the study of animal behavior.
Review, 2223 words
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