Migration Alert: Sacramento Valley hunters need winter weather
The birds are here in the Sacramento Valley but hunter success for the remainder of the season is going to depend on weather, especially for rice field hunters.
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Understanding Waterfowl: Ways of the Wigeon
These fascinating ducks have many characteristics and behaviors that set them apart
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Massive Coastal Restoration Project Completed in California
For the first time in more than 100 years, tidal waters returned in August to the former Napa Plant Site salt-production facility adjacent to the Napa River on the northern reaches of San Francisco Bay.
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Waterfowl Migration Flyways
Banding research helped waterfowl managers map the major migration corridors followed by ducks and geese, which are known today as flyways. For management purposes, North America is divided into four flyways—the Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific.
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DU Projects: Pacific Flyway
The Pacific Flyway stretches 4,000 miles north-to-south and 1,000 miles east-to-west. From the Arctic to the west coast of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, this flyway encompasses the most varied waterfowl habitats in North America. DU and its partners have conserved more than 984,000 acres of waterfowl habitat in the U.S. portion of the Pacific Flyway alone.
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2010 Waterfowl Forecast
Waterfowl populations remain at high levels overall thanks to favorable breeding habitat conditions
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Sonoran and Mohave Deserts / Sierra Madre Occidental
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's habitat conservation work in the Sonoran and Mohave Deserts / Sierra Madre Occidental priority area
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Baja California Desert
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's habitat conservation efforts in the Baja California Desert priority area.
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Pacific Northwest
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's habitat conservation work in the Pacific Northwest priority area.
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Great Basin
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's conservation efforts in its Great Basin priority area.
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California Bay Area Projects
Ducks Unlimited conservation projects in California's San Francisco Bay Area
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Waterfowl in the Last Frontier
Alaska has experienced a waterfowl population boom, but future development and climate change could threaten the birds and their habitat.
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Mexico's West Coast Wetlands
Shrimp farming and harmful runoff threaten coastal habitat that is crucial to Pacific Flyway waterfowl.
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California Conservation Projects
Ducks Unlimited habitat conservation projects in California. These projects benefit waterfowl, other wildlife and people. View sample projects, project map and more.
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Sonoran and Mohave Deserts - More Information
Background information on DU's Sonoran and Mohave Deserts conservation priority area
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Pacific Northwest - More Information
More information on Ducks Unlimited's Pacific Northwest conservation priority area.
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