
Table 10. - Central Flyway: Waterfowl kill statistics 

Percentage 
change 
1959-60 to 
Species 1960-61 1959-€0 1960-61 
Mallard. 690,988 694,563 - 1 
Green-winged teal 188,691 186,008 + 1 
Pintail 143,114 126, 224 + 13 
Blue-winged teal 102,196 116,210 - 12 
Scaup 59,482 108,032 - 45 
Shoveler 353,322 34,074 + 56 
American widgeon 46,699 28,550 + 64 
Gadwall 37 , 382 23,715 + 58 
Black duck 1/ 2/ l/ 16,390 1,320 VY 41142 
Ring-necked duck 14,285 14,419 - ] 
Wood duck 12,489 13,084 - 4 
Buf flehead 7,521 3,009 + 36 
Goldeneye 7,142 2,912 +145 
Merganser 7,142 3,630 + 97 
Ruddy duck 7,142 4,749 + 50 
Canvasback 4,280 33,744 - 87 
Cinnamon teal 1/ l/ 3,382 11,018 V/ - 69 
Redhead 1,347 29,738 - 95 
Scoter 225 502 - 55 
Others -- 689 “= 
Total ducks retrieved 1,403,219 1,434,692 - 2 
Total ducks not retrieved 376,724 206 , 647 + 82 
Total ducks killed 1,779,943 1,641,339 + § 
Canada goose 3/ 129,956 4/ 126,611 + 3 
Snow goose 47,420 31,774 - 8 
Blue goose 19,623 20,111 - 2 
White-fronted goose 17,901 13,208 + 36 
Others -- 1,357 -- 
Total geese retrieved 214,900 213,061 + 1 
Total geese not retrieved 48 ,529 30,503 + 59 
Total geese killed 263,429 243,564 + 8 
Total coots retrieved 24,236 16,240 + 49. 
Total coots not retrieved 21,856 11,528 + 90 
Total coots killed 46,092 27,768 + 66 

) Estimate for 1960-61 considered unreliable; see text. 
2/ Includes mottled ducks in addition to black ducks. 
3/ Includes 34,081 small white-cheeked geese reported as Hutchins‘'s or cackling geese. 
4/ Includes 15,053 small white-cheeked geese reported as Hutchins’s or cackling geese. 
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