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Duck Nesting in the Northern Great Plains

Northern Prairie furnishes data forms to interested cooperators. Cooperators send completed data forms to Northern Prairie where data are entered, error-checked, summarized and archived.

Center statisticians and biologists periodically analyze the data to provide up-to-date information for assessing status and trends in duck nest success and for use as input in various population models.

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.  1995.  Duck nesting in the Northern 
     Great Plains.  Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.  
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/ducknest/index.htm
     (Version 02SEP99).  

Table of Contents

• Related Literature
• Becoming a Cooperator
• Information about Cooperators
• Habitat Classification
• Distribution of Nests
  • By Species
  • By Habitat Class
  • By Year
  • By Period, State, and Province
• Nest Success
  • Dakotas and Minnesota, 1966-94
  • Prairie Canada, 1982-85
  • By Habitat Class, North Dakota, 1990-94
• Outcomes of Nesting Attempts, North Dakota, 1990-94
• Nest Initiations by Habitat Class, North Dakota, 1990-94

For further information:

Terry L. Shaffer

Biological Resources Division

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

8711 37th Street SE

Jamestown, North Dakota

701-253-5522 (phone)

terry_shaffer@usgs.gov (e-mail)

ducknest.zip (165K) -- Duck Nesting in the Northern Great Plains Installation: Extract all files and open index.htm in a web browser.

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