Enumerations of post~breeding concentrations in the Kootenay region 
indicate that production was high in 1949. This has compensated for the 
decline in breeding stock which was apparent at the beginning of the year and 
an appreciable increase in numbers has probably taken place. 
Table 1. -- Spring Waterfowl Counts - Caribou Parklands 
1946 1947 1949 
Mallard 39 ras) 10 
Pintail le 15 i, 
Green-winged teal 7 19 52 
Shoveler 5 9 2 
Baldpate 73 56 13 
Ring-necked duck oS 7 0 
Redhead 12 28 32 
Canva sback al 17 25 
Lesser scaup duck 403 467 155 
Barrow's golden-eye 57 116 66 
Buf flehead 79 100 30 
Ruddy duck 31 42 28 
Total 742 901 364 
Coot 447 167 35 
Table 2. -~ Midsummer Waterfowl Counts - Caribou Parklands 
1948 1949 
Adult Youn Adult Young 
Mallard 50 29 33 31 
Pintail 1 & 18 
Green-winged teal 4 15 15 
Blue-winged teal 31 25 
Baldpate 192 13 4g 188 
Shoveler 11 10 
Redhead 28 14 | 12 31 
Canva sback 26 68 10 75 
Lesser scaup duck 344 358 18 
Barrow's golden-eye &8 146 61 250 
Bufflehead 48 72 46 120 
Ruddy Duck 96 & 9 25 
American Coot 61 24 93 105 
Total of Ducks 922 352 . 633 801 
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