Waterfowl migrations are changing

[cpp4720]

We should just quit shooting them to save them
all.


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Lol. Don’t count me in …


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[Duckman#1]

It ain’t fuckn rocket science

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[cajunwannabe]

Ducks aren't even on Lake Erie yet. LOL

Going to be interesting to see what my cousins kill on the 2 day season in MI this Sunday and Monday. Last year was unreal.

[tot]

El Niño year. Weather is too warm and stagnant in the north half of the continent for us southern states to get any substantial bird numbers


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[BOGSTER]

Why are there hundreds of thousands of pintails, scaup, bluewings, widgeon, gadwalls, greenwings, redheads, and shovelers in Mexico?
Did El Niño forget about them?

The age old weather debate has been settled and proven as bullshit.

[Southernduck]

Because mallets are all that matter bo

[tot]

Why are there hundreds of thousands of pintails, scaup, bluewings, widgeon, gadwalls, greenwings, redheads, and shovelers in Mexico?
Did El Niño forget about them?

The age old weather debate has been settled and proven as bullshit.

Mallards are all that matter Bo


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[drwilly]

Why are there hundreds of thousands of pintails, scaup, bluewings, widgeon, gadwalls, greenwings, redheads, and shovelers in Mexico?
Did El Niño forget about them?

The age old weather debate has been settled and proven as bullshit.

Is it possible that some birds are going to migrate regardless and some are weather dependent or do we have to oversimplify it and choose absolutes?

[cajunwannabe]

Why are there hundreds of thousands of pintails, scaup, bluewings, widgeon, gadwalls, greenwings, redheads, and shovelers in Mexico?
Did El Niño forget about them?

The age old weather debate has been settled and proven as bullshit.

I bank on photoperiod migrators for early season hunting but by now pressure has them sitting in the Gulf of Mexico, gone further South or back North. We have the worst duck counts in La in years, either they're all in Mexico, up North or they don't exist.

Why are there tens of thousands of BBWD's (and Fulvous) taking over FL, LA and hopefully here? What is one factor, that none of us can control, that has changed? I'm not a climate change conspiracy theorist, just a realist. Who settled the weather debate? How?

[tman]

I'm not a climate change conspiracy theorist, just a realist.

https://fitzlab.shinyapps.io/cityapp/

Interesting link that shows the expected climate in the next 60 years - predicted by a University of Maryland study.

[sc sportsman]

The Standard Sportsman podcast had Lee Kjos on discussing some of this. Worth the listen.

[LabLuvR]

A number of states have already banned robo ducks. The things work too good when used correctly. Ice eaters could be banned too. That would be a good first-step nationwide.

You will be hard pressed to convince the countrys wealthiest folks to give up their corn ponds. And you will be even more hard pressed to convince youtube enthusiasts to stop filming and sharing their hunts for kickbacks and perceived movie-stardom.

I won't get much accolades for this comment, but they probably need to illegalize "guiding" in Canada and USA. Guiding for birds is good for oosers and the economy, but terrible for ducks. Leases are probably fine, but paying a company to scout, secure permission, provide decoys , and do everything but pull the trigger should not permitted if you want to increase waterfowl numbers.

There ain't anything you can do about the weather. Suck it up. Quit hunting. Or drive farther. Those are your options for that.

P.S. please hurry up and illegaize the tamie ponds before the plague of chicken mallards move west.

I agree with outlawing guides in Canada. Especially when they can shoot 8 damn pintails and the guides let them shoot all hens. Just ridiculous.

[MolliesMaster]

https://fitzlab.shinyapps.io/cityapp/

Interesting link that shows the expected climate in the next 60 years - predicted by a University of Maryland study.

Some of the same science that said all the glaciers would be gone by 2020?

[Yellowlabhunter]

Always an interesting topic! When I was out West we argued when rice country began to decomp over burning. All that standing water in thousands of acres decreased our migration south of them drastically. Shooting at a club 1,200 ducks a year (Mallard, Pintail, Teal, Widgeon) to Shooting 600 the next 5 years per 13 hunters.

In '98 when I saw my first goal post roto duck, I saw birds dropping into it like nothing I've seen!

There are many questions, man has a way to screw up everything he touches.

[Calibogue]

Always an interesting topic! When I was out West we argued when rice country began to decomp over burning. All that standing water in thousands of acres decreased our migration south of them drastically. Shooting at a club 1,200 ducks a year (Mallard, Pintail, Teal, Widgeon) to Shooting 600 the next 5 years per 13 hunters.

In '98 when I saw my first goal post roto duck, I saw birds dropping into it like nothing I've seen!

There are many questions, man has a way to screw up everything he touches.

I hear tell of two ponds killing 6,000+ ringers per season!
Even if they are just ringers this is beyond comprehension..... I can't even fathom those numbers