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Janet Kear

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English ornithologist (1933-2004)

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  • Food selection in certain finches, with special reference to inter specific differences
  • Flamingos
  • The Hawaiian goose
  • Wildfowl
  • Wildfowl

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  • The collection of down from the nests of s was a common practice among Eskimos and, in Iceland, the wild Eider Duck is farmed. In the early 1960s there were about 200 Eider farms in Iceland holding some 250,000 nesting females, each producing an average of 19 g. of cleaned down.
  • The is perhaps the evolutionary link between the , and the .The Mallard has been domesticated for over 2,500 years. the Romans initiated the process in Europe, and the Malays in Asia.

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date of birth
1933-01-13
date of death
2004-11-24
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