Show Tallies Show Ducks Increase Tallies from the recently completed winter waterfowl cenSUS over Utah marshlands shows good numbers of ducks geese and other waterfowl wintering within the borders of the Beehive State The counts conducted Dec 27 the day after the 1982 1962 wa- wa waterfowl waterfowl season came to a close clase found nearly ducks of all species on the States State's marshes along with approximately geese 1600 swans and coots for a total wintering population tion ot of more than birds bird The counts conducted jointly by personnel from state and federal agencies us- us using ing both air and ground showed the cur cur- current rent winters population to be bemore more than double the birds which were found on the states state's marshlands a year ago biologists point point- pointed ed out that overall figures re- re revealed re- re revealed by the recent counts closely approximate the ten ten ten- year average wintering population lation of birds However they noted while overall populations hit the duck numbers conti continue ue to be b down The survey is conducted an- an annually an on the same days in all states slates comprising the Pacific waterfowl flyway as a measure meas- meas measure ure to determine over carryover of 01 brood broad birds from the fall hunts and effects ot of the pat past open season The full picture covering wintering waterfowl on an the Pacific flyway is not complete until the tally from each state is summarized summa |