North Dakota breeding duck survey a mix of highs, lows
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On one hand, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 76th annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of more than 3.4 million birds, up just 1.5% from last year, and that is good news.
Also good is the fact that the total number of wetlands, though down 26% from last year, still ranks as the seventh wettest spring in terms of wetland basins observed during the survey, during which four two-person crews traveled more than 800 miles of transects counting ducks and wetlands within 220 yards of the road.
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