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Summary 
Water levels were the highest in recent years on the 20.5 square-mile 
Kindersley-Eston Study Area, set up on regular transect form. 
Four coverages were made for breeding pairs; the average density was - 
58.8 pairs per square mile with the pintail and mallard making up 28 and 12 pairs 
respectively. 
Two coverages were made for broods and resulted in a density of 23.5 
_ broods per square mile (pintail 9.9 and mallard 4.9). 
Three aerial coverages of the area indicated that the air crew saw 57 percent 
of the breeding pairs recorded from the ground and 41 percent of the broods in this 
section of the treeless grasslands. 
Number of flightless young banded on sloughs along the transect totalled 699. 
