Bpecies composition changed from May 1948 to May 1949 as follows: 
Percent of the Duck Fopulation 
1244 149 
Elue-winged teal aT a6 
Finteil 19 eo 
Mallard pe 1? 
Scaup 14 Tr 
Canvasback 16 4 
Shoveler 5 ad 
Baldpate Tr 5 
Gadwall tr 4 
Other a 4 
100% 100% 
On 27 study sreas worked intensively for broods, 19 broode were connted, 
or 0.7 per area. There were 14 areas per agquare mile of thie district in 1949. 
The production index flgure ie thue 9.8 broods per section. 
District 4 
This hilly area, mown as the Turtle Mountains, was the only area in 
eouthwestern Manitoba which chowed a decrease. However, high winds made flying 
conditions extremely poor when the 1949 cenenes war taken. Since the ares was too 
emall te justify a repeated effort, we shall disregard the findings. 
District 6 
Total coverage amounted to 21.5 square miles, or 2.7 percent of the 
total area. Ground counts showed 21.7 ducks per square mile compared to 21,0 
ducks per square mile cbhtalned by aerial counte. We comparable data are 
available for 1948, 
An increase to 24.8 ducks per square mile wes noted in June. Species 
denaity figures for the May and June coumtea are given in Table 1. 
A production survey wae not made in this district. 
District 6 
Total coverage wear 50.5 equare milee or 3.6 percent of the whole dietrict, 
Ground counte in May showed 36.2 ducks per section; aerial counte 33.0. In June, 
SE? ducks per section were tallied. It would appear that most of the tranrienta 
from the drought areas to the weet settled down before reaching this di<¢- 
trict. Table 1, however, Indicates @ marked late spring build-up in one species, 
the mallard, , 
The 1948 counte in District 6 gave a large diecrepancy between the eround 
and serial figures (18.8 and 30 ducks per section}. 4 poselble explanation is 
fiven in the 1948 report. Because of thie discrepancy the 1949 ground count 
de almost twice the 1848 fienre but the aerial count is only elightly larger. 
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