This year, a total of 1,250 ducks were banded in New Hampshire before the hunting seasons began – the highest total banded in the 32 years of the program. (FISH AND GAME PHOTO)
State Fish and Game wildlife biologists have completed the annual effort to attach hundreds of metal bands to ducks throughout the state. (FISH AND GAME PHOTO)
This year, a total of 1,250 ducks were banded in New Hampshire before the hunting seasons began – the highest total banded in the 32 years of the program. (FISH AND GAME PHOTO)
State Fish and Game wildlife biologists have completed the annual effort to attach hundreds of metal bands to ducks throughout the state. (FISH AND GAME 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 U.S. states and Canadian provinces throughout the Atlantic Flyway in August and September. This huge undertaking provides survival-rate data that are used in combination with breeding-plot data and HIP (National Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program) survey data for the model used to determine annual season regulations in the spring.
Each metal band has a unique sequence of numbers, and biologists record the species, age, and sex of each duck before it is released. At the end of the season, all the data are submitted to the Bird Banding Lab at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland.
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