Great video, very well produced and very educational! After spending years as a Chairman of a local DU chapter, it was time to put time and money into real projects that make a real difference in our community. My RU-vid channel is dedicated to low budget improvements any land owner can do to improve habitat for migratory birds. I show the in depth process of water level control in beaver swamps and farm ponds & the planting process for Rice and Japanese Millet. We feed hundreds of migrating waterfowl each winter (that is a lot for central NC) on our
The Atlantic fly will never agian be what it was a century ago. Climate change, habitat degradation due largely to population and human interference, particularly in the Chesapeake bay and the massive decline in native species have taken a massive toll. Mallards aren’t Native to the Eastern part of the United states. They are of a completely different genetic strain than that of Native western Mallards. They were introduced by ducking clubs at some point as pen reared birds. If the theory of infertility turns out to be true the Atlantic flyway will practically be done in terms of waterfowl heritage. We will lose it cause the native ducks just don’t exist in the numbers they once did. To add to that problem most ducks in the Atlantic Flyway never make it to their traditional wintering grounds anymore. This study was done in NY because in the last ten year’s that’s been about as far as ducks/geese migrate anymore. It’s doom and gloom all over in the Atlantic flyway. Would be nice to get some good news but I don’t think that is realistic at this point.
@@Nate-bo6ec Yes I did. Although I knew this for years. I was a nerdy kid who loved waterfowl and lived in a area very rich in waterfowl history. I noticed the clubs on the Chesapeake in the late 19th century and early 20th never killed mallards. So I did some research. Oddly enough I wrote a paper about it for my graduation many moons ago.
decline decline decline year after year after year but never even consider shorter seasons, reduced bag limits etc... shoot your way to abundance... absolute insanity.
