Blessed event at the Canvasback factory. The pose of the mother duck is characteristic, and she guards the ducklings 

 witii devotion and courage when Intruders appear. This nest was on the Redvers study area in Manitoba. (Photo by 



Jerome Stondt ) 



; > <j-e , and sex composition of the waterfowl kill 

 and determine certain characteristics of hunters. 

 The results of the L962-63 questionnaire survey 

 indicated a reduction in the duck kill of nearly 

 50 percent below that of L961-62 in the Central 

 and Mississippi Flywavs, while in the Atlantic 

 Fly way there was no real change ( I •"• percent). 

 In the Pacific Flyway, there was approximately a 

 1'2-percent reduction in the (hick kill. The re- 

 duced kill in the Central and Mississippi Flywavs 

 was undoubtedly the result of very restrictive 

 waterfowl regulations in L962, which permitted 



only a two-bird limit (hut only one mallard) and 

 a 25-day season. The results of the wiiifj-collec- 

 tion survey in L963 suir«rest a marked increase in 

 the kill — approximately double that of 1962 in 

 each of the two middle flywavs, :'><> percent greater 

 in the Pacific Flyway, and unchanged in the At- 

 lantic Flyway. Final figures await completion 

 of data analyses for the several surveys employed. 

 The species composition of the kill in L962 was 

 indicated by the wing-collection survey, and it 

 indicated a decrease, proportionally, in the mal- 

 lard kill in both the Mississippi and Central Fly- 



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