Ducks Unlimited Releases 2024 State Waterfowl Survey Roundup

Geese Limitless just lately launched a roundup of the 2024 outcomes from state company breeding waterfowl surveys. These information present insights into the standing of regional waterfowl habitats and populations within the Pacific and Mississippi Flyways.

Whereas these state-led surveys are sometimes overshadowed by the extra outstanding Might Survey, or Waterfowl Breeding Inhabitants and Habitat Survey (WBPHS), they play a vital position in informing waterfowl administration selections, significantly by adaptive harvest administration (AHM) frameworks.

The 2024 state survey outcomes embrace:

Annually, survey information from the WBPHS and these state surveys are fastidiously analyzed and used to tell AHM suggestions by state companies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), guaranteeing harvest frameworks align with the long-term well being of waterfowl populations.

“This 12 months’s state numbers current each challenges and causes for optimism, however we’ll have a clearer image later this month when the USFWS survey report is launched,” mentioned Geese Limitless Senior Waterfowl Scientist Dr. Mike Brasher. “Within the meantime, we prolong our gratitude to our state and provincial companions for his or her unwavering dedication to the conservation and administration of those unbelievable birds, which for over a century have united us in a trigger better than ourselves.”

This 12 months’s state waterfowl survey outcomes spotlight progress and ongoing challenges in waterfowl populations, underscoring the necessity for sustained investments in inhabitants monitoring and habitat conservation. Geese Limitless continues to cost ahead in wetland conservation in North America, just lately asserting a milestone of delivering a million acres of conservation in a 12 months. This contains long-term and everlasting initiatives, reminiscent of conservation restorations and easements, and short-term or annual efforts, reminiscent of agricultural cowl crop applications, in addition to each new and revisited mission websites.

Characteristic picture through Chris Jennings | Geese Limitless.