
It is not likely that the change in population of any 
species of geese in the flyway was sufficiently large 
between 1956 and 1957 to be significant. 

Coot ~ The 1957 index for coot is three percent below the 
average of the past eight years and compared to individual 
years is: 
37 percent above 1956 
42 percent above 1955 
53 percent above 1954 
87 percent above 1953 
54 percent below 1952 
25 percent below 1951 
11 percent below 1950 
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