HUNTING
Missouri
BOB BROWN: 19,300 ducks, mostly mallards and pintails. Moist-soil food status good; water normal. Nov. 8-12, 185 hunters averaged 2.6 ducks apiece.
NODAWAY VALLEY: 6,850 ducks, mostly pintails. Moist-soil food status good; water normal. Nov. 8-12, 143 hunters averaged 1.1 ducks apiece.
SQUAW CREEK: 32,821 ducks, mostly mallards. 2,800 acres of wetlands; habitat conditions good.
MONTROSE: 2,265 ducks, mostly gadwalls. Moist-soil food status poor; water normal. Nov. 9-13, 69 hunters averaged 1.3 ducks apiece.
FOUR RIVERS: 33,465 ducks, mostly mallards. Moist-soil food status good; water normal. Nov. 8-12, 139 hunters averaged 1.4 ducks apiece.
SCHELL-OSAGE: 23,065 ducks, mostly gadwalls and mallards. Moist-soil food status good; water normal. Nov. 9-12, 365 hunters averaged 2.1 ducks apiece.
GRAND PASS: 50,000 ducks, mostly mallards and teal. Moist-soil food status fair to good; water normal. Nov. 8-12, 284 hunters averaged 2.1 ducks apiece.
FOUNTAIN GROVE: 23,125 ducks, mostly mallards and teal. Moist-soil food status excellent; water normal. Nov. 8-12, 332 hunters averaged 0.9 ducks apiece.
SWAN LAKE: 26,450 ducks, mostly mallards. Most units are awarded through an online draw conducted every two weeks via www.swanlakepermits.com.
Kansas
CHEYENNE BOTTOMS: 10,000 to 25,000 ducks, mostly shovelers, gadwalls and teal; 4,000 to 10,000 geese, mostly white fronts. Water levels vary. Nov. 5-9, duck hunters averaged a bit less than 2 birds apiece.
MARAIS DES CYGNES: More than 25,000 ducks, mostly teal; 100 geese. Water levels good; habitat good. Nov.12-13, 184 hunters averaged 2.1 ducks apiece.
NEOSHO: 15,000 to 20,000 ducks, mostly early migrants. Hunting conditions fair. Nov. 12-13, 49 hunters averaged 1.7 ducks apiece.
PERRY: Low numbers. Hunting conditions poor.
TUTTLE CREEK: 80 ducks. Hunting conditions poor.
MILFORD: 25 ducks. Hunting conditions poor.
QUIVIRA: 36,488 ducks, mostly pintails; 23,982 geese; 2,000 sandhill cranes. Water levels are fair to good in most hunting-zone water impoundments. Whooping cranes present; area is closed to hunting.
MELVERN: 27 ducks. Hunting conditions fair.
Bruce Janssen, bjanssen@kcstar.com
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