St. Paul – Across the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s duck breeding populations survey area, things are ducky. And wet. According to the agency’s 2011 report on populations, total duck abundance (45.6 million) jumped 11 percent from last year, and was 35 percent higher than the average from 1955 to 2010. There were 8.1 million […]
MN: Across the continent, waterfowl numbers increase
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