Waterfowl Gain in United States Shown by Survey

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 51, 2 March 1939, Page 11

Waterfowl Gain in United States Shown by Survey

WASHINGTON.—The waterfowl depression is on the mend, the Biological Survey announces. An annual mid-winter inventory just completed shows that for the second consecutive year more wild ducks and geese wintered in the United States than in the previous year. Up until last year the depiction had continued for many pears. The inventory was taken by regional directors of the survey’s division of game management, augmented by state game wardens, state police officers, personnel from the Forest Service and the Soil Conservation Service, observers from state colleges, volunteer observers of the survey, and members of various wild-life and sportsmen’s organizations. They counted nearly 9,500,000 duck and geese, estimates to be about ono fourth of the continent’s waterfowl. Mallard and pintail increases wore the largest. Black ducks, less seeupf, baldpates, snow geese, and Canada geese gained. Canvasbacks and redheads, fully protected for the first time last year, also showed an increase. The upward trend was attributed to several factors. “More birds returned to breeding grounds a year ago as a result of hunting restrictions,” the survey officials said. “There was a good increase of young ducks and geese. The federal refuge system is showing results. Last fall’s hunting regulations also were strict. Sportsmen are giving increasing support to the waterfowl restoration programme.” They hastened to make it clear that these gains should not lead sportsmen to believe that waterfowl have fully recovered. “Further improvement to bring tho birds up to normal numbers depends upon continued co-operation in tho restoration programme,” officials Warned.

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