and in the young produced, were noted on 
Farmington Bay and Bear River Refuges. 
Other goose-producing areas were moreor 
less the same as in 1960. An overall in- 
crease of 116 broods and 629 young was 
noted from 1960 to 1961 (table F-16, p. 114). 
The average number of goslings per 
brood in 1961 was 4.86 compared with 4.75 
in 1960. 
Considering the reduction in broods on 
Ogden Bay Refuge and the increases on 
both Bear River Refuge and Farmington 
Bay Refuge, it appears there may have 
been a shift of breeding geese from Ogden 
Bay to the other two refuges. To further 
substantiate this suspicion, two broods on 
Farmington Bay were accompanied by neck- 
collared adults. Ogden Bay geese were 
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collar marked only during the years 1956 
through 1959. Such a shift could not account 
for all of the increase on these two areas, 
but it does provide a partial answer. Many 
of the gun club areas around Farmington 
Bay Refuge were dry during the census 
period and geese normally brooding onthese 
areas may have moved onto the Refuge, which 
would also contribute to the nearly 60-per- 
cent increase there. 
CONCLUSIONS 
It is estimated that there will be a 
decrease in the fall flight of ducks as 
compared with last year's flight and an 
increase in the flight of Canada geese. 
CENTRAL FLYWAY 
WATERFOWL KILL SURVEY 
An estimated 1,403,219 ducks were bagged 
during the 1960-61] waterfowl season in the 
Central Flyway (table A-5, p. 46), suggesting 
a slight decrease (2 percent) from the pre- 
vious year. An additional 376,724 ducks 
were estimated killed but not retrieved 
(an unusual 85-percent increase), resulting 
in a total kill of 1,779,943 ducks, 8 percent 
more than last season. 
Mallards made up nearly 50 percent of 
the reported duck bag; green-winged teal, 
13 percent; pintail, 10 percent; and blue- 
winged teal, 7 percent. These four species 
constituted 80 percent of the total duck 
bag. . 
The kill of pintail increased 13 percent 
from the previous season; the kill of blue- 
winged teal dropped 12 percent and that of 
scaup decreased 45 percent; whereas, the 
kill of shoveler and American widgeon 
increased 56 and 64 percent, respectively. 
The extreme changes reported in the bags 
of black duck and cinnamon teal are un- 
realistic and are undoubtedly a result of 
the previously explained mixup in the dis- 
tribution of the eastern and western forms 
of the questionnaire (see p. 2). Large 
decreases occurred in the estimated bags 
of redhead and canvasback, as expected 
with closed seasons, although the reported 
kills were still 5 and 13 percent of the 
previous year's bags of the two species. 
An estimated 214,900 geese were re- 
trieved during 1960-61, virtually the same 
number as in the 1959-60 season, and an 
additional 48,529 geese were killed but 
not retrieved (a 59-percent increase). 
Canada geese composed 61 percent and 
snow geese 22 percent of the total reported 
goose bag. 
A total of 24,236 coots was estimated 
retrieved, representing a substantial in- 
crease (49 percent) from the 1959-60 
season. The 21,856 coots killed but not 
retrieved resulted in a total kill of 46,092 
coots for the season, a 66-percent increase 
from the previous year. 
The number of potential hunters in the 
Central Flyway remained the same as 
during the 1959-60 season, but the number 
of active hunters dropped 4 percent (table 
A-6, p. 47). The average number of times 
hunted per active hunter increased 15 
percent. Adult hunters bagged anaverage of 
4.8 ducks during the season, an increase 
of only 1 percent from the previous year. 
