Table 4. -*haterfowl Broods by Size Classss - Stats of Montana, 1949 




Class I Class IT Class IFI TOTALS 
AY. AY. AY. AY. 
Species Broods Sizes Broods Size Broods Sizes Breaods Size 
Mallard n 5.6 39 Bed: mB 8.2 12253 
Pintail 3 5.7 2d, 59 od, bed spl 5a 
Shoveler 3 6.7 4 ToS 4 705 ll Te 
B-w, teak 16 "1. d, 41 6.5 9 5.1 bh hy 5 
G-w, teal é 6.3 16 5.3 L 6.0 Hal ae 
Baldpate 5 6.7 » 16,0 r 7,0 7 94 
Gadwall al 5.0 2 6.5 2 7.0 5 ede 
Ruddy th 4.9 - - rf 4.9 2 ba 5 
Secaup 3 9.0 7 re - = 10 7.8 
Dolden=eye = = = is. 1 7.0 3 6117 
Canyasback ~- - 3 B.3 1 3,0 ‘i 7.0 
Total ‘A 4.2 LaF 6.2 lee sell We 5.8 


Hreeding pround banding in Menteana was inctdsnteal to other work during tha 
summer of 1949. Two hundred and seven ducks were banded as follows: 62 gresn- 
winged teal, 44 baldpate, 37 blue-winged teal, 22 pintail, 19 mallard, 9 acaup, 
Ro shaveler and 6 sacwall. Some of thes¢ birds were banded coopsratively with 
personnsl of ths Fish and Kildlifs Ssrvice from tha Fort Peck Game Hanes. 
summary 
L, Ths need fer a well organized, coonerativs waterfowl program pronptsd 
tis Voertana State Fish and Gams Department to make its initiel waterfowl treed- 
ing ground census in 1949. 
2e- In order te facilitates the internrstation of waterfowl deta, the State 
was divided into three large natural nabitat areas. Thess argas ars aa follows: 
7 A, Morthern Glaciated Prairie Rerion 
B, Southsrn Unglaciated Prairie Region 
Cc. The Western Mountains 
3. Brought conditions wers experienced in the State of Montana during the 
1949 breeding seasoo, Syringe run-off failed to fill meny of the reservdira and 
potholes and the hot, excentionslly dry summer dried up all but thé more perme- 
nent water areas in many sections of the State. 
4. Ths greatest enncentration of waterfowl was found in the intermountain 
Flathead Yalley. Eighty-one square miles had « concentration of 54 bitds psr 
square mile. Kast of the mountains the number of birds per aquare mil* ranged 
from &.7 in the Great Fells Fisdmont area to 1.45 in the southern unglaciated . 
Temion. with tig sxception of csrtrin localized areas, the waterfowl bresding 
hebitet during 1949 was of low quality. ) 
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