More ducks settled in Minnesota this spring

Nine days of flying. Two weeks off. Two different planes. Variable wetland conditions statewide. Likely more settling ducks compared to last year.
Those are the broad strokes of what happened and what was observed during the state’s aerial spring waterfowl survey, which was completed by the Minnesota DNR near the end of May.
“I don’t want to say it was uneventful, because that wouldn’t be true,” said Bruce Davis, supervisor for the Minnesota DNR’s Wetland Wildlife Populations and Research Group in Bemidji, who, along with a pilot and a second observer, flew this year’s survey.

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