Table 51 
FOODS OF 14 MALLARDS FROM INTERIOR DRAW=-DOWN IMPOUNDMENTS+ 


Seeds 100% (76-100) Seeds (con't) 
Common Burreed 93 (66-100) Spatterdock 7% ( +-3h) 
Weak Bulrush 29 ( 8 59) Mermaidweed 7 ( +-3h) 
Buttonbush 29 ( 8 59) Arrowleaf Tearthumb 7 ( +-3k) 
Sedge (Carex lurida) 29 ( 8- 59) Berchtold Pondweed 7 ( +3) 
Dotted Smartweed 21 ( be 51) Sedge (Carex folliculata) 7 ( +-3k) 
Rice Cutgrass 21 ( he 51) Poison-ivy 7 ( +~3h) 
Wild Millet 1h ( 1 43) Greenbrier 7 ( +-3h) 
Halberdleaf Tearthumb th ( 1- 43) Blackgum 7 ( +=3h) 
Largeseed Smartweed 1h ( 1- 43) Smartweed 7 ( +-3h) 
Redroot Cyperus 1h ( 1- 43) Grain 7. ( *=3) 
Sedge (Carex intumescens) 1h ( 1- 43) Corn 7 ( +-3h) 
Sedge (Carex crinita) 1h ( 1- 43) = Animal Food 1h ( 1-43) 
Panicum (Panicum agrostoides) 1h (1 =43) Coleoptera larvae 7 ( +-3k) 
Swamp Rose 1h ( 1-43) Trichoptera larvae 7 ( +-3h) 
Sweetgum 1k ( 1 -3) Libelluloidea nymphs 7 ( +-3h) 

: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. All collected during fall and early winter. Percentage occur- 
rence of foods that made up 5% or more of the volume in individual birds. Figures in parentheses 
show 95% confidence limits. 
Table 52 
LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF HUNTING KILL OF WILD MALLARDS? 
Chester River Section 2% § Upper Western Shore Section 3% 
Coastal Section 13 Central Potomac Section 3 
Choptank River Section 12 Upper Potomac Section 2 
Eastern Bay Section 11 Coastal Plain Interior 2 
Blackwater-Nanticoke Section 9 Patuxent River Section 2 
Lower Eastern Shore Section 9 Lower Potomac Section 2 
Upper Eastern Shore Section 6 Lower Western Shore Section + 
Susquehanna Flats Section 3 Central Western Shore Section + 
Total 100% 

1 Based on 244 weighted band recoveries. 
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