2010 1st first edition. Merlin Unwin Books. Ludlow, Shropshire. Ppxii,211,ad. B/w photographs, sketch maps, brief bibliography, photographs end-papers. Blue boards. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Notes: Douglas Butler is a Tipperary farmer, zoologist and avid wildfowler who gives the reader the benefit of a lifetime's experience and study. Chapters include; about ducks; residents, migrants, and the numbers game; times past; populations, hunting and mortality; lead shot, non-toxic shot and crippling losses; regulations; walking ducks up; flighting; flighting at dawn; flighting at dusk; moonlight; stubble time; punt gunning; the future.
