hunting season recovery rates for immatures change from 2.8 percent 
in Alberta to 4 percent in Manitoba (Migratory Bird Populations 
Station Administrative Report 18). 
Recoveries of blue-winged teals banded within the United States 
were chiefly within the Central and Mississippi Flyways, and the 
proportion of these recoveries occurring south of the United States 
was less than that derived from Canadian bandings. Recoveries tended 
to be concentrated within the State of banding, but more birds banded 
in Nebraska and North Dakota and nearly as many banded in South Dakota 
were harvested in Minnesota than in the State of banding. 
Shovelers 
The distribution of recoveries of banded shovelers was oriented 
toward the western flyways (tables 6 and 15). Shovelers banded in 
Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and California that were 
recovered in the United States have all been taken in the Pacific 
Flyway. Approximately 85 percent of United States recoveries from 
bandings in Alberta were in the Pacific Flyway but this proportion 
diminished to about a third of the recoveries from bandings in 
Saskatchewan. Both Saskatchewan and Manitoba shovelers contributed 
primarily to the kill in the Central Flyway. Harvest of shovelers 
from the Prairie Provinces in the Mississippi Flyway was relatively 
low, varying from only 4 percent of recoveries from Alberta bandings 
to 11 percent from Saskatchewan and 28 percent from Manitoba. However, 
hunters in the Mississippi Flyway shot approximately 37 percent of 
the shovelers banded in South Dakota and 41 percent from North Dakota. 
Pintails 
Hunters in the Pacific Flyway shot more banded pintails from 
Alaska and Canadian Provinces east through Saskatchewan than did 
hunters in any other flyway (tables 7 and 16). Recoveries of pintails 
in the Central and Mississippi Flyways from bandings in all Prairie 
States and Provinces except Minnesota indicated that a larger propor¬ 
tion of prairie raised pintails was shot in the Central than the 
Mississippi Flyway. Recoveries from bandings in the Prairie States 
were widely scattered throughout the Central and Mississippi Flyways 
but were consistently most numerous in the State of banding. Birds 
taken away from the State of banding were slightly more frequently 
shot in Minnesota, Louisiana, and Texas than in other States. The 
few pintails taken in the Atlantic Flyway originated mostly in 
Manitoba, the Dakotas, and Minnesota. 
Canadian hunters took a smaller portion of pintails than mallards, 
varying from 13 percent of total recoveries from bandings in British 
Columbia to 36 percent in Manitoba. A small proportion of recoveries 
from bandings in most States and Provinces was in countries to the 
south of the United States. 
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