rshes west of Live 0 ak. Smaller flocks wars found elsewhere* Am 
majority of them wore Pintails* Toe as oirds shifted about to sons 
extent with tbs o hanging season Out as part moved on others cams In 
from slsswhsrs to tamo their plaoss* after the middle of September 
there was marked migration evident and from then until the middle of 
October large numbers of additional birds earns in* 
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After September l v the birds rested on these bodies of open 
water during the day* When the nights were dark they flew out to feed 
at daybreak and at dusk returning to the water for the night* On 
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moonlit nights they fed at night coming out about an hour after the 
moan rose* 
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Many areas that are now in rioe were formerly sloughs or swaspy 
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placet of waste land where wild ducks were accustomed to feed and rest 
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during the late suras or and fall* Utilization of these has resulted in 
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e certain crowding of the duok population on reeaining areas* She 
grasses that grow the rioe produce abundant seeds that attract the ducks 
and they often feed in the rioe fields in open plaoes long before the 
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rioe is maturs* 
Damage aft to the rioe itself from tits attaoxs of ducks began 
abont September 1 or as soon as the heads of ths early varieties began 
to fill* Ducks fed first about the open ponds in the rice fields or in 
areas where ths grain had failed to stool properly making a thin open 
stand* Pintails were the only abundant spool as though Mallards cams 
in fair numbers* A few green-winged Teal and Cinnamon Tsai were assn 
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but they wars not cannon. In thin stands ths dnoks stripped the heads 
of ths rioe from the water below. From these thin areas they o on tinned 
