The California Department of Fish and Wildlife released the results of their 2018 Waterfowl Breeding Population Survey and, for the first time in 6 years, the total population of waterfowl in California is now over half a million. That’s a 39% increase over last year!
I’ll just give you a couple highlights since there’s really no reason to plagiarize DFW’s entire report:
(from the DFW report on the survey)…“The 2018 breeding population of mallards increased from 198,392 in 2017 to 272,859 (an increase of 38 percent). Mallards are the most abundant waterfowl species in the state, followed by gadwall (102,637) and cinnamon teal (78,498).
Other ducks that increased in number include northern shovelers, wood ducks, redhead and canvasback. Overall, the total number of ducks increased from 396,529 to 549,180 (an increase of 39 percent).”
If you want to read DFW’s entire report on the survey you can access at the following link…
If you’d like to read the entire Breeding Population Survey Report you can access that at the link below…
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=146708&inline
So, good news for the coming season. Hopefully, we’ll get some weather early in the season to drive the birds down to our end of the state and this will bode well for a great season at San Jacinto.
Don’t forget the upcoming Volunteer Work Days at San Jacinto on Saturday, August 18th and Saturday, September 22nd. With the increased bird populations, it’ll be more important than ever to get the Wildlife Area and the blinds ready for the upcoming season. You can get details on these upcoming workdays in SoCalHunt’s report at the link below…
Hope to see you out there!
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