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Article: Wetland use by breeding and postbreeding female mallards in the St. Lawrence River Valley.
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) are declining throughout their primary breeding range in the prairie pothole region of North America (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service 1986). As prairie habitats are lost to agriculture, secondary breeding habitats in northern forests have become increasingly important to the continental population (Gilmer et al. 1975, Trost et al. 1987). However, outside of prairie pothole habitats, research on dabbling ducks in general, and Mallards in particular, is meager. Such lack of data is especially significant in the St. Lawrence River Valley (SLRV) because it contains some of the most pristine wet-lands - 70% of which are ...