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Interesting Info on Band Recovery...
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:23 pm
by MAG
Found this while surfin'. Scroll down to the bottom and look at those maps. Notice the flow of ducks from the SouthCentral part of Canada, across the Central Plains and ultimately to Arkie land.
Anybody here ever shot a BANDED SPOONIE???
haha
http://www.agfc.com/hunting/waterfowl_section/banding.html
MAG
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:30 pm
by Bustin' Ducks
that's pretty cool...and just think how many more bands WEREN'T reported..
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:57 pm
by Don Miller in Birmingham
Looks like the flyway has shifted.
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:07 pm
by MAG
I don't know if I'd read that deep into those maps. I believe, what they are showing is the point of banding and the point of harvest, which wouldn't exactly mean they flew in a straight line from point A to point B.
But, if the old theory about the shortest distance between two points holds true for ducks, then you see exactly how many of those banded ducks flew right over Oklahoma/Kansas/Nebraska (assuming that ducks really do imprint and fly the same general migration path year after year)... And with the increase in cropland, specifically, PEANUTS, in that part of the country, it would make sense that the ducks would start to hang out there. Especially with no cold weather, and only minimal hunting pressure to push them on thru Arkansas to Mississippi.
It is something to think about anyway...
MAG
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:38 am
by ducman77
Arkansas looks like the hot spot for the band recovery.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:46 am
by vicksburg
It's a Arkansas Game and Fish website. They are just showing their states data...that's why it looks like a hot spot.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:17 am
by cajun squealer
Two words: PROMOTING TOURISM!
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:33 am
by the doctor
no one can tell me now our ducks dont move over Oklahoma and the pan handle of TX
they got no reason to come this far
the doc
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:13 pm
by RedLeg84
I hunt in Arkie and at our camp this year there were only 3 bands, last year there were 4 and year before that I am not sure. But its all those 10 billion people that hunt in stuttgart. Anywhere you have that many people hunting in one area there will be alot of bands killed. Just my 2 cents
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:57 pm
by mudsucker
Arkansas is a magnet for ducks like Clinton was a babe magnet.
Must be something in the water.
Lets get or guys at MDWF to post point of banding info for our state and we can be just like arkieland.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:58 pm
by mudsucker