Hunters - Don’t contribute to the appalling crippling loss our waterfowl resource suffers each season.

RADIO SPOTS FOR WATERFOWL CONSERVATION
Hunters - Don't contribute to the appalling crippling loss our waterfowl resource suffers each season. Wait and let 'em come in until the eyes of the duck are visible. Then you will kill clean or miss clean.

Here is some advice from an old duck hunter: "If you can't see their eyes the ducks are not within good shooting distance." Wait. Shoot to kill, not to cripple.

Hunters - Stop long-range shooting. It cripples more ducks than it kills. Let the birds come in close.

Hunters - Don't be too eager to shoot those ducks. Let 'em come in close. Then you can identify the birds which can be taken only in limited numbers. And you will kill clean or miss clean and won't waste birds by crippling them.

Project Leader - The following may be used (but delete if arrangement is not desirable) where supplies warrant such an announcement by your office: Any hunter wanting a leaflet which will help him identify the three species of ducks which are in short supply this year--redhead, canvasback and ruddy duck--should get in touch with the local Fish and Wildlife Office.

Old time duck hunters were like the old Minute Men. They didn't shoot until they could see the eyes of the target. Then they didn't miss. Try that system, Mr. Sportsman, and you'll get more ducks inyou7 bag and leave fewer to die in the marsh.

Each hunter will aid waterfowl conservation if he will just wait until he can see the eyes of the duck before he shoots. Let Iem come in and reduce crippling losses which amount to approximately one of every four birds knocked down. Additional birds hit at long range fly away to die later and add to this waste.
Mr. Conservationist - Are you looking for a good investment in real estate? Here is an opportunity for as little as $3. Buy a duck stamp and help purchase habitat needed by waterfowl. You'll get a lot of satisfaction every time you see waterfowl on the wing.

Sportsmen - Insure your future hunting for $3. Buy a duck stamp and be one of those who shows his faith in the future of a favorite sport. Get your stamp at your local post office.

No matter how you ship things, you'll never find anything which will carry so much so far as a $3 duck stamp. Just remember that when you see duck flocks winging from north to south and back, your $3 is making those flights possible.
If you do not buy a 1959 duck stamp you can't hunt this year and you are endangering your hunting in future years. To conserve tomorrow, buy today. Hunter; go to your post office and get a duck stamp for $3.

Millions of dollars are being spent in development work which is reducing waterfowl habitat. Why don't you spend $3 for a duck stamp and save some of this habitat needed by waterfowl. Under the new law all of the duck stamp money is earmarked for Federal acquisition of wetlands for waterfowl. Get your duck stamp at the post office or from your sporting goods dealer.

The retriever on this year's duck stamp didn't appear there just by accident. It is there to remind the hunter that about 25 percent of the birds shot are lost in the marsh. Let's stop this needless waste. Let's retrieve those birds.
Mr. American Hunter should make this promise each time he goes duck hunting: I will not shoot at a duck until I can see its eyes; I will not willingly down a bird and leave it unretrieved.

Here is a tip to the duck hunter. If that bird coming in has a grayish body, a round red head and a bluish bill with a white ring around it, it is probably a redhead; if the body is whitish, the head sloping, either red or brown in color and a black bill, it is probably a canvasback. Think before you shoot. Learn how to identify waterfowl. Cans and redheads along with the ruddy duck, are in reduced numbers this year and there are restrictions on shooting them in all Flyways. Check the regulations.

The shortened hunting season and the restricted bag limits on waterfowl this year are necessary because of three dry years on the nesting grounds. Nesting success was at reduced level this year and fewer young are coming down. If sufficient birds can return next spring and there is a "break" in the weather, water fowl will get back on the road to recovery. Help them by observing duck hunting regulations designed to insure a continuing supply of water fowl.

"Stop, look and listen" has always been good advice. So is "Wait, look and retrieve". The duck hunter who remembers those three little words will make a go contribution to waterfowl conservation. Learn how to identify ducks. Teach yourself to hold your fire until the birds are at close range.

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