LEADER 03999nam 2200673 450 001 9910811971203321 005 20230803202233.0 010 $a0-300-18826-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300188264 035 $a(CKB)3710000000103058 035 $a(EBL)3421394 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001267579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12477789 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11256092 035 $a(PQKB)10792618 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421394 035 $a(DE-B1597)486864 035 $a(OCoLC)1024037444 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300188264 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421394 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856644 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL587505 035 $a(OCoLC)878149171 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000103058 100 $a20140413h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe double-crested cormorant $eplight of a feathered pariah /$fLinda R. Wires ; with original illustrations by Barry Kent MacKay ; Sonia Shannon, design 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-18711-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tPart I. What are Cormorants? --$tPART II. The Populations and the Perceptions, Then and Now --$tPART III. The Economic and Political Landscape of the Cormorant, 1965 to the Present --$tPART IV. The Science, Management, and Ethics of Today --$tAfterword: What Future for Cormorants? --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aThe tragic history of the cormorant's relations with humans and the implications for today's wildlife management policy The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expected that the first European settlers in North America quickly deemed the double-crested cormorant a competitor for fishing stock and undertook a relentless drive to destroy the birds. This enormously important book explores the roots of human-cormorant conflicts, dispels myths about the birds, and offers the first comprehensive assessment of the policies that have been developed to manage the double-crested cormorant in the twenty-first century. Conservation biologist Linda Wires provides a unique synthesis of the cultural, historical, scientific, and political elements of the cormorant's story. She discusses the amazing late-twentieth-century population recovery, aided by protection policies and environment conservation, but also the subsequent U.S. federal policies under which hundreds of thousands of the birds have been killed. In a critique of the science, management, and ethics underlying the double-crested cormorant's treatment today, Wires exposes "management" as a euphemism for persecution and shows that the current strategies of aggressive predator control are outdated and unsupported by science. 606 $aDouble-crested cormorant$zNorth America 606 $aDouble-crested cormorant$xEconomic aspects$zNorth America 606 $aBird pests$zNorth America 606 $aHuman-animal relationships$zNorth America 615 0$aDouble-crested cormorant 615 0$aDouble-crested cormorant$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aBird pests 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships 676 $a598.43 700 $aWires$b Linda R.$01183583 702 $aMacKay$b Barry Kent 702 $aShannon$b Sonia 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811971203321 996 $aThe double-crested cormorant$93924163 997 $aUNINA