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The high water level has not only contributed to the factors which have 
resulted in an apparent reduction of the local waterfowl population, but it has also 
flooded most of the wild rice beds which normally attract large numbers of migra- 
ting ducks during the hunting season. 
Brood Studies 
Brood data were collected on the study area and adjacent water bodies from 
late May until August 24, The data are classified in Table II. A total of 30 broods 
and broody females was counted in contrast to 115 broods in 1953 and to 150 broods 
in 1952 with the same intensity of coverage. The totals are not corrected for 
possible duplicate counts. Decreased numbers of broods of all species were 
observed, and the figures are so small in most cases that haiching success znd 
brood survival cannot be validly determined. 
Table II. - Brood Date - 1953 and 1954, 
Species Class I Class II ‘Class Ill 
No. broods Av. No. broods Av. No. broods Av. Broody 
Observed Brood Observed Brood Observed Brood Hens 
Size size Size 
Black Duck 
1953 8 8.0 12 Txt 17 7.6 - 
1954 1 9.0 2 9.5 3 6.3 2 
B-w. teal , 
1953 lz 9.2 9 6.3 4 5,5 - 
1954 1 7.0 - ~ - - - 
G-w. teal 
1953 - - - - - - - 
1954 - - 1 4.0 1 1,0 - 
Wood duck 
1953 ; 12 8.2 3 7,0 3 5.7 - 
1954 - - - - j 10.0 - 
Ring -necked 
1953 18 Ae 8 5.4 1 5.0 - 
1954 2 6.45 3 6.0 z 4.5 ] 
Golden-eye 
1953 14 7.0 5 5.4 4 5.8 - 
1954 : 3 7.0 2 a. 3 3.1 1 
Mallard 
1953 - = - - - - - 
1954 Z ‘ : A i 1 

