Duck population

Guns Magazine, Nov, 2008

US Fish & Wildlife Service reports the preliminary estimate of total ducks was just over 37 million, a nine percent decline from last year's estimate, but still 11 percent greater than the 1955-2007 average. In the US and Canadian prairies, population estimates of many species declined, while populations increased in the boreal forest to the north, likely reflecting in part those birds that overflew the prairies because of drier habitat conditions there.

The Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey, the largest and most comprehensive survey of its kind in the world, samples two million square miles and estimates the number of ducks on the continent's most important nesting grounds.--Courtesy NSSF