Indirect recoveries (210) from the Ashland station show the 
bulk of the recoveries were taken from Ohio northward. Fifty-six 
percent of the recoveries were taken within Ohio. This situation, 
showing limited southward movement and heavy local kill approaches that 
found along the southern New England coast and certain inland areas in 
New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (to be discussed). 
Based on the number of recoveries from one region as against 
another: the principal supply of Ohio black ducks is derived from 
birds originating in or passing through Ontario, western Quebec, west- 
ern New York, and western Pennsylvania. From earlier discussions of 
bandings within this region to the north and east it was noted that a 
significant portion migrated to Ohio and beyond. Farther west, from 
Michigan to Minnesota and Manitoba, 8 percent of the recoveries were 
taken as compared to 19 percent from the north and northeast, so that 
the principal movement into Ohio is from the north and northeast. 
Recoveries south of the Ashland station are difficult to in- 
terpret. Apparently migration is relatively slow or delayed and most 
of the records are from scattered inland points. From the Ashland 
station there is a fanning out over a broad front from the State of 
Mississippi east to the Carolinas with South Carolina accounting for 
more than half (4 percent) of the South Atlantic indirect recoveries. 
Interior recoveries indicate no particular major routes of travel but 
a general overland movement following many devious courses. With in- 
direct recoveries it is uncertain what route was followed in some in- 
stances. This is particularly true of the few Middle-Atlantic recover- 
ies from New Jersey to Virginia. 
Indiana 
Bandings in Indiana have been at two widely-separated loca- 
tions, one at Rensselaer in the north just below Lake Michigan and the 
other at the southern tip of the state on the Ohio River in Posey County. 
The Rensselaer bandings are the more numerous, but neither station has 
banding of sufficient scope to give an adequate distribution. The band- 
ing was done primarily in the fall during the hunting season and to a 
very limited extent in the spring at Rensselaer. 
The pattern displayed by the Rensselaer distribution (54 in- 
direct) is much like that of Ashland, Ohio, except that there is a 
shift westward. At the most, about 3 percent of the recoveries could 
be considered as within the Atlantic Flyway. The northern records ex- 
tend from eastern Ontario to Minnesota with Ontario accounting for 11 
percent, and the Michigan-to-Minnesota region 20 percent of the indirect 
recoveries. South of the station the flow of movement is primarily 
south and west through the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys with some birds 
reaching Texas and Alabama. 
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