By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — The number of breeding mallards in Minnesota may be on the decline, but that doesn’t reflect what’s happening in the rest of their range. The number of mallards on prairie breeding grounds, at about 7.3 million, is slightly above the count last year, and on par with […]
Continental duck populations increase slightly
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