"Billy-the-Kid" shot Mexicans just to see them kick. The same type of criminal shoots animals or birds to see them flop! Death has slowly forced these fine birds further away from the East and only the Audubon Society has saved them from extinction. Under protection they are increasing and future Americans will watch their wild evolutions, when the spirit of play seizes them. When a thunder storm approaches, the heavy birds become transformed, flying to meet the wind like nightgowned children. Diving and darting on split pinions, they come down with roars, recover and zoom up, ending the show with zigzag swoops — as easily as swallows!
Their disposition is mild and good natured and the colonies live in amity.
Lake regions of western interior, North America, from central British Columbia south to Texas.