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Show Ducks, geese soon nesting With the peak of the spring waterfowl migration now completed com-pleted those adult birds on Utah marshes are or will soon be nesting. Nearly 200,000 ducks and 3,000 geese are on ma rshlands in Utah. Swans have moved through the state on the way to their nesting grounds in northern Canada and Alaska. The first broods of Canada geese are expected in about a week, with mallards being the next bird to produce young. Redhead and ruddy ducks are among the last to nest in Utah's marshes. Many species of waterfowl nest in Utah with the most common being mallard, redhead, red-head, cinnamon teal, gadwall, pintail and ruddy ducks. Whistling swan and lesser snow geese, although common in the state during spring and fall miggration periods, do not nest in Utah. Both of these birds will raise their broods on the edge of the Arctic. A pessimist is a guy who sizes himself up and gets sore about it. |