. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 85 tvventy-tive or thirty ducks in a couple of hours and stopped shootingwhen I could easily have killed many more than one hundred had Idesired to do so. Early in the season, when the ducks lirst arrive,immense numbers are killed by the pot hunters, who use heavyguns and shoot into the flocks when bunched together in the course such continual slaughter must necessarily reduce the. DUCK SHOOTING WITH DECOYS. number of ducks which annualW visit Florida, and alr
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 85 tvventy-tive or thirty ducks in a couple of hours and stopped shootingwhen I could easily have killed many more than one hundred had Idesired to do so. Early in the season, when the ducks lirst arrive,immense numbers are killed by the pot hunters, who use heavyguns and shoot into the flocks when bunched together in the course such continual slaughter must necessarily reduce the. DUCK SHOOTING WITH DECOYS. number of ducks which annualW visit Florida, and already it is evi-dent that their numbers are materially lessened, although they stillreturn, each year, in vast numbers. At some of the small IndianRiver towns it was by no means unusual to see large flocks of ducks bedded within a short distance of a wharf, where shooting wasprohibited. They soon learned that they were safe there and paidno attention whatever to the people who stood and watched them 86 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. from the shore within easyshootin<{ distance. But thosesame ducks, when out on theriver, would not allow a boatto approach within gunshotof them. The most common species of duck on the Indian River is the Bluebill or Blackhead, but there are others. The Widgeon and Pintail are abundant, and the Shoveller, Blue and Green-wing Teal, Ringneck, and Rudd}- Duck ^ ^ ^- are also common. Gadwells and Black Ducks (both Northern and Florida) are not uncommon in places, while various ot
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