In fall 2016, lifelong birdwatcher, naturalist, and esteemed Texas artist Margie Crisp decided to take up a shotgun and start Hunting ducks.
Along the Central Flyway from the Texas coast to Canada, this revealing personal narrative traces Hunting and birdwatching trips, and even a solo road trip following the birds\' migration, all through the eye of an artist whose words and drawings bring her journey to life..
First-hand accounts are seamlessly integrated with information about Conservation history as well as interviews with hunters, biologists, and birdwatchers.
Readers journey with the author as she learns to hunt--to experience the emotional impacts of killing, cleaning, cooking and eating birds.
Could Duck hunters be considered conservationists? Could she overcome a life-long aversion to guns and learn to shoot birds? And could doing so help Conservation of habitats for ducks and other migratory bird species? In writing her experiences, Crisp explores these questions and illustrates to both communities--hunters and naturalists--that one woman can be a birdwatcher, a bird hunter, and above all, a conservationist devoted to preserving habitat for birds and other wildlife.
Here, Crisp goes beyond birdwatching to challenge her notions about hunting.
Why? Because of the money waterfowl hunters spend on licenses, firearms, and ammunition, or donate to nonprofit Conservation organizations.
With many bird species in a precipitous decline, Duck and geese populations continue to rise steadily year after year.
Few nature enthusiasts understand the role that the Hunting industry plays in the Conservation of wildlands and wildlife--protecting far more critical habitat than birdwatchers do.
In fall 2016, lifelong birdwatcher, naturalist, and esteemed Texas artist Margie Crisp decided to take up a shotgun and start Hunting ducks
