Books, CDs and Movies about Ducks and Geese*

The Duck Handbook (Barron's Pet Handbooks) by Julie R. Mancini

Ducks can either be kept as pets or raised as farm animals. Duck owners will find all the facts they need on housing, feeding, health care, and more. Written by breeders, veterinarians, and other pet care experts, they describe their title-animal’s traits and present advice on feeding, health maintenance, and all other important aspects of animal care.

Facts, advice, and fascinating insights tell you all you need to know about

• Acquiring
• Housing
• Feeding
• Health Care
• and much more

Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cows (Paperback)

• The introduction acquaints the reader with all the pros and cons of keeping farm animals, covering such topics as manure, noise, and dealing with the neighbors.
• Six types of livestock are covered in depth, starting with chickens as perhaps the easiest to keep, then moving through ducks and geese, rabbits, goats, sheep, and finally dairy and beef cattle.
• Each chapter introduces the animal and describes breeds; discusses the animal's personality and how to handle it.
• Provides information on feeding, housing, and routine care; and finally tells how to deal with the animal's output of eggs, milk, fiber, or meat.

Simple, clear, and straightforward instructions and advice help the new animal keeper with any questions, and line drawings illustrate many concepts.

Feeding Poultry: The Classic Guide to Poultry Nutrition for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Gamebirds, and Pigeons ~ Gustave F. Heuser

FEEDING POULTRY is required reading for anyone interested in giving their flocks a better diet. First published in 1955, this book is modern enough that no important point is overlooked, yet old enough that free range, green feed, home-grown grains, and small flocks are given due attention. Written by pioneering poultry scientist G. F. Heuser of Cornell University, the book is aimed at practical poultrymen in addition to poultry scientists, and this makes it more accessible than more recent works.

How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops... by Carol Ekarius

The book is essential reading for anyone interested in animal health and welfare. It includes:

• complete plans and step-by-step, illustrated instructions for sheds, coops, hutches, multipurpose barns, and economical easy-to-build windbreaks and shade structures.
• Ekarius covers new high-tech, portable structures made of plastics and fabrics, such as hoop houses and hen spas, as well as more traditional alternatives, such as straw-bale structures.
• Always practical, she enumerates the advantages and disadvantages of ready-to-build kits and modular barnyard buildings and includes designs for watering systems, feeders, chutes, stanchions, and more--the essentials that help owners keep their animals healthy and happy.

Choosing and Keeping Ducks and Geese: A Beginner's Guide to Identification, Care, and Husbandry of over 35 Species ~ Liz Wright

A comprehensive overview of care and feeding requirements and all necessary equipment for keeping these popular and easy-to-maintain animals as pets. The all-inclusive guide provides extensive identification sections of 26 duck and 13 goose breeds and outlines how to incubate, hatch, and care for new ducklings and goslings. The author, an expert on ducks and geese, explains how to enter your purebred pet into a show, how to prepare the animal for competition, and identifies some of the standards that judges may be looking for when examining these beautiful birds. The eye-catching photography provides an up-close look at these lively animals throughout the text.

Keeping Ducks & Geese ~ Chris Ashton

This comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to keeping ducks and geese walks you through every step from what to consider before buying them, to how to house them, to their welfare and even egg selection.

The book includes a detailed section on all of the common breeds and features extensive information on planning and welfare, as well as guidelines on how to deal with any eventuality.

A lavish lifestyle section provides recipes for using the rich eggs, family activities, duck and goose folklore, and much more.

The New Duck Handbook: Purchase, Care and Feeding, Health-Breeding Undstaning Ducks Behavior (Pet Owner's Handbooks) ~ Heinz-Sigurd Raethel

Written for owners and prospective owners of yard animals that make good pets.

Keeping Ducks: Beautiful, Comical Things DVD DVD Movie!

If you have thought of keeping ducks but don't know where to begin, this video is exactly what you need. Tom Bartlett explains the practicalities of feeding, housing, the impact of ducks on a garden and the care and maintenance of duck pond. Collecting, incubating and hatching eggs are all shown, along with care of the ducklings. Tom explains the characteristics of different breeds and their suitability for different homes and owners

Duck (2005)

In a duck who believes him to be its mother an old man discovers the will to live on DUCK is a sad-funny story of hope and survival set in Los Angeles as-of-yet avertable future. In 2009 when Los Angeles last city park is closed to the public a dispossessed man and the duck who follows him as a mother quest west on foot in search of water and meaning in the desert that is L.A.Arthur (Philip Baker Hall) is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place friends and family resources and reasons to live. In the park where his son and wife are buried Arthur contemplates putting an end to his own life when he is confronted by an orphaned duckling who has just escaped death. Arthur names this duckling Joe. Joe follows Arthur the only mother he knows.When their park is landfilled and their pond is drained Arthur and Joe engage in a Sisyphean struggle to survive seeking a means to live a place to live and a purpose to live in a world where their lives are not valued. In their search Arthur and Joe encounter a host of strangers some hostile some helpful some heroic until finally forming a community and a home.If we are but six degrees of separation from one another are we as few to being alone?

DVD Movie!

Running Time: 96 minutes

Diseases Of Free-Range Poultry: Including:

• Hens
• Ducks
• Geese
• Turkeys
• Pheasants
• Guinea Fowl
• Quail And Wild Waterfowl

By Victoria Roberts

Domestic Geese (Hardcover)

There are many reasons for keeping geese—for eggs, meat, exhibition, as rare breeds, or just pets. Whatever your reason for choosing these fascinating birds, Chris Ashton explains how to look after them, from setting up with the first birds to breeding, rearing, and showing.

Topics covered include:

• breeds, their origin, and characteristics; an overview of different enterprises;
• management of adult stock
• the breeding season; rearing the goslings; and
• ailments and diseases.

The Calls Of Ducks And Geese ~ Lang Elliott

Learn the songs and calls of 50 waterfowl species found across North America. An audio soundtrack combined with detailed text and beautiful color photographs make this a useful guide for any birder. From the distinctive quack of the American black duck and whistled "peep" of the cinnamon teal to the cuckoolike call of the pied-billed grebe and yodel of the yellow-billed loon, this package covers waterfowl species in an easy-to-use format. Includes dabblers, sea ducks, geese, and other waterfowl.

Unique book and audio CD package

• Features sounds of 50 North American waterfowl species
• A full-color photograph complements each bird's description

From the Publisher
Comes with audio CD. 50 color photos.

Guide to Ducks And Geese [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

Common, numerous, and often easy to observe, ducks and geese are nonetheless sometimes difficult to identify. This straightforward introduction to ducks and geese will help you put a name to almost every duck or goose you’ll find in the wild.

It offers large, colorful photos of every species found in North America--dabbling ducks, diving ducks, and geese--as well as the loons, grebes, and other waterbirds you’re most likely to see. In most cases, both a male and a female in breeding plumage are shown.

Accompanying text describes the species’ habits, behaviors, characteristics, and calls--information that will help anyone appreciate these wild creatures and make a positive ID in the field.

Ducks, Geese, and Swans: 2-Volume Set (Bird Families of the World) ~ Janet Kear

Beautiful presentation and stunning illustrations, these volumes provide an excellent introduction to wildfowl families of the world and would provide sound reference material for both student and enthusiast, captivating the reader with fine illustrations and well-written material,

Snow Geese Ph.D., Bruce Batt

Snow Geese: Grandeur and Calamity on an Arctic Landscape chronicles the fascinating life of the lesser snow goose, from Gulf Coast marshes through the farmlands of the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains to Arctic breeding areas.

Snow goose populations have grown dramatically since the mid 20th century; today the lesser snow goose is the most abundant Arctic-nesting goose in the world. Its abundance has wrought serious and long-term degradation on the Arctic habitats upon which the geese depend for sustenance. The degradation threatens the future of the snow goose and all the other species of resident and migratory wildlife that share these habitats.

Snow Geese: Grandeur and Calamity on an Arctic Landscape is intended to help the reader understand the causes and consequences of these changes as well as the spectacular beauty of the snow goose and the places in which it lives.

Waterfowl: An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese, and Swans of the World ~ Steven Madge

This complete guide to 150 species of ducks, geese, and swans provides color illustrations of all major plumages and subspecies and offers informative details on voice, population, distribution, range, habits, and habitats--for beginners and experts.

Ducks & Geese of Minnesota Field Guide: Includes Swans & Other Water Birds ~ Stan Tekiela ... Learn about and identify Minnesota waterfowl using Stan Tekiela's field guide.

The full-page, color photos are incomparable and include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. Plus, with the easy-to-use format, you don't need to know a bird's name or classification in order to easily find it in the book.

Using this field guide is a real pleasure. It's a great way for anyone to learn about ducks, geese, swans and more.

The Complete Guide to Waterfowl Taxidermy: How to Prepare and Preserve Ducks and Geese (Hardcover) - Written by master taxidermist Todd Triplett, this ultimate guide covers all aspects of the art of waterfowl taxidermy.

Included are detailed, easy-to-follow chapters on:

• Proper field care
• Waterfowl anatomy and reference
• Tools and materials
• Skinning and degreasing methods
• Methods of preservation
• General mounting procedures
• Flying and standing poses
• Using artificial parts

Outdoors With T.K. & Mike

T.K. and Mike have a distinct brand of outdoor humor, and it is abundant in this comedy hunting video!

Join T.K. and Mike as they take you on a hunting trip unlike any other. Anyone who has spent time in the field will enjoy this hilarious video.

The Art Of American Game Calls: Duck, Goose, Turkey & More: Identification & Values (Hardcover)

More than 275 game calls, made by traditional and company call makers, are featured in close to 400 color photos. Each call is identified as to maker, approximate age, area of manufacture, and current collector value. Examples of famous call makers such as Perdew, Allen, and many others are included, as well as a wide sampling of calls from lesser known makers. In addition, the book profiles the major American call companies like Faulk, Herter's, Lohman, Mallardtone, and Olt. Most of the calls have never before been seen in print.

The Snow Geese of La Perouse Bay: Natural Selection in the Wild (Oxford Ornithology Series) (Hardcover)

"The results of 25 years of studying 40,000 individually marked adult Snow Geese, 45,000 nests, and 110,000 goslings at a colony in northern Manitoba are synthesized in this book. The study seeks to understand roles played by genetics, behavior, and ecology on a population of wild Snow Geese in terms of evolution of their natural populations. The workings of natural selection are thus determined on characters such as plumage color, time of breeding, clutch and egg sizes, fitness, and goose body size.

North American Ducks, Geese and Swans (Paperback)

• Learn about native waterfowl while coloring over 40 full-page plates.
• Detailed, accurate illustrations depict a rich array of species in their natural habitat: trumpeter swan, Canada goose, common loon, ruddy duck, mallard duck, northern shoveler, wood duck, hooded merganser and many more.

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home (Paperback)

Fiennes travels to south Texas, and leapfrogs the birds--by car, bus, train, snowmobile, and foot--en route to their nesting grounds on Baffin Island. His journey's log is freckled with pungent lessons on avian orientation, the Northern Lights, and the sport of curling as well as portraits of birdwatchers, former hobos, backyard inventors, and Inuit hunters. Most moving are his meditations on restlessness--the primal, contradictory human impulses to leave and return and leave and return.

In The Snow Geese, a model of artful, elegant prose, William Fiennes, a young convalescent, follows migrating snow geese on their annual 3,000 mile journey to the Arctic Circle. Fiennes's own journey, a wide loop he hopes will return him to his pre-illness life, is no less arduous.

Complete Waterfowl Studies: Geese and Swans ~ Bruce Burk

Wild geese calling ~ Robert William Murphy

The author has an excellent knowledge of the habits and life of Canada geese. Beautiful and detailed illustrations show the unique markings and facial differences. A book worth reading..

(Please note: This description only applies to the Robert William Murphy Book)