Ways of Waterfowl

Waterfowl of North America: The Biology of Waterfowl

Lead poisoning in waterfowl.

proventriculus-gizzard contents. Most pellets were irregular in shape and in various stages of erosion, There was no apparent correlation between body weight and the amount of lead shot per bird. Liver discoloration was a remarkable gross finding. The entire liver parenchyma was uniformly colored dark green. Bile-colored viscous fluid oQzed from the cut surface of the liver, There was moderate-...

Ways of Reasoning and Ways of Inferencing

This paper reports on research in intercultural psychology to argue the case for the role that different ways of knowing might have on education. Evidence is summarised that suggests that Asian students make subtlety different inferences than their western counterparts, and that this has not been given serious consideration in the educational literature, despite its importance for the enterpris...

Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling

The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured ethnographic inter...

Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior: Frontmatter and Introduction