Fish and Game duck banding
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Wildlife biologists work to place leg bands on waterfowl. (COURTESY PHOTO)

CONCORD — State Fish and Game wildlife biologists have completed the annual effort to attach hundreds of metal bands to ducks throughout the state. The pre-season banding effort is conducted in US states and Canadian provinces throughout the Atlantic Flyway in August and September.

This considerable effort provides survival rate data that is used in combination with breeding plot data, parts collection data and HIP (National Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program) survey data as inputs for the model used to determine annual season regulations in the spring.

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