It is interesting to note that all of the Quebec records come 
from the spring-banded series, whereas Ontario is represented by both 
the fall and spring bandings. The Quebec recoveries are found well 
down the St. Lawrence to the Lake St. John and Saguenay River areas. 
Another interesting aspect is that all the New England recoveries are 
from spring-banded birds. 
The Reading Station also shows a slight influence in the 
midwest with 3 percent of the recoveries coming from the Mississippi 
Flyway States of Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. 
Summary - Northern Atlantic Flyway 
There seems to be considerable variatior. in the data from 
station to station and from state to state. The greatest variability 
is the number of recoveries from the vicinity of the banding station. 
This in turn appears to influence the distribution away from the 
station. 
1. From Labrador, eastern Quebec, the Maritime Provinces, 
and eastern New England, migration is primarily coastal, and goes as 
far south as Florida. In most years, it is not significant south of 
Virginia or coastal North Carolina. Not all of this northeastern pop- 
ulation migrates south of New England; an important segment winters 
along the coast from Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. 
The over-all flight pattern in the northeastern portion is 
somewhat confusing because some populations, like those in Quebec and 
Labrador, exhibit strong migrational characteristics, whereas, those 
banded on Massachusetts tidal marshes exhibit delayed movements or 
strongly sedentary habits. In the latter instance several factors might 
influence the populations concerned and cause bias in the data. Intens- 
ity of hunting, use of bait, extensive habitat, climate, and natural 
migration habits (or sedentary habits) are probably involved. The most 
important of these factors seems to be a marked trap selectivity where 
both sedentary ani migrant populations are concerned. 
2. Flights coming out of southern Quebec, Vermont, and east- 
ern New York follow a north to south course through the Champlain and 
Hudson Valleys to the Delmarva Peninsula area and the Carolinas. These 
birds have limited affinities with the eastern Maritime areas as well 
as to the west in Ontario and westward. 
3. Moving westward we find that with each change in degree 
(or degrees) of longitude, there is a shift in the axis or trend of 
movement from southeast to south and southwest. So that we find a 
progressive depletion of records in New Jersey and other Middle Atlantic 
States, and a corresponding build-up from the Carolinas south and in 
the Mississippi Flyway. Apparently a point is reached in western New 
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