Relationship With Humans
This species is commonly hunted. Annual bag figures in the late 1970s were about 188,000 birds in the USA and about 360,000 in Canada. Even though it has been deemed Of Least Concern by IUCN, in the United States this bird is a protected species according to many northern states' hunting rules.
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“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
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