Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-25 | Page 23 | Survey Says 11 Million More Ducks

i Survey Says 11 M Million lion More Ducks Although Utah hunters who have been bemoaning the Indian summers summer's protecting the wildfowl might want to take this with a agrain agrain agrain grain of salt the annual fall re report report re- re port and survey compiled by Ducks Unlimited Canada shows an increase of birds over last year The survey mailed to The Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram by General Manager Thomas C. C Main reports ducks this year an increase of per percent per percent cent over last year Migration of all aU ducks got under underway underway underway way during the last week of September September September Sep Sep- with the winged blue-winged teal thinning out the fastest Pintails were reported passing through the southern provinces in great num num- bers Airmen report geese flying at feet along the river still a long way north for Utah but southern Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Sas- Sas gunners noticed th tM the first flocks of geese September r 25 The first Lesser Snow goose was spotted September 6 on the Atha Atha- baska river delta Just In passing Main mentioned that magpies and crows i were liquidated by conservation conservation- j conscious Canadians which may be 11 partly responsible for the increased duck crop this year ear