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Re: 1930's Duck Counts from the Chesapeake Bay - Has this been published?

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Sam Droege

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Sam Droege

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Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:15:05 -0500

Hi Chan:

Unfortunately, I think that most of those records have "disappeared" in
various cleanouts...my impression from this batch is that they accidentally
ended up in one of the cabinets.

We just finished entering the data, so more details to come.

Thanks

sam


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Hello, Sam et al.

Those winter duck count cards are just the tip of the iceberg.  They were
in the attic of Nelson Lab when I arrived here in the 1940s.  Why they were
out here, I have no idea,
and I never had a clue about where the bulk of the cards were filed.

I recognized what they were because I used to participate as a volunteer in
the Winter Inventory in Massachusetts in the 1930's.  I was able to get a
day off from school by being a volunteer for the U.S. government
(Biological Survey).

I don't recall that the results were published in any detail, but they
surely were summarized and used along with other data to contribute to the
hunting regulations.

As for the people listed as observers, I recognize most of the names as
being Maryland DNR people, except for Key Wallace who was at Blackwater for
decades.

Chan

Chandler S. Robbins
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Laurel, MD 20708-4015
Ph 301-497-5641,  FAX 301-497-5624
email 



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  |Sam Droege/BRD/USGS/DOI                                                                                                                    |
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  |Maryland Birds & Birding <>                                                                                    |
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All:

After a visit from Phil Davis to poke around in the old files at Patuxent
we came across a set of waterfowl cards printed on a government form for a
Waterfowl Census Survey that the USDA Bureau of Biological Survey ran in
the past.

There were approximately 200 cards and they list surveys from the early
1930s of Chesapeake Bay Waterfowl.

Some of the names of observers on the cards include:


                                                                              
 Orin D. Steele                                                               
                                                                              

                                                                              
  Deputies O. Robbins & D.F. Shuffler                                         
  C. W. Wallace-J.S.C. Boswell                                                
                                                                              
 A quick look at the data and it obvious that there were few to no Mallards   
 on the Bay and many thousands of Black Ducks and that the "King of the Bay"  
 the Canvasback was abundant.                                                 
                                                                              
 We are entering these data into a spreadsheet and will send it out to the    
 group, but have several questions that some of you may be able to answer.    
                                                                              
 1.  Has any of these data been published before?                             
 2. Does anyone know any of the observer's listed above?                      
 3. Does anyone have any background information on Bureau of Biological       
 Survey Waterfowl Census?   <I have poked through most of the files here at   
 Patuxent and these are the only survey cards I have found, yet my suspicion  
 is that they were done throughout the U.S....and perhaps Canada.>            
                                                                              
 Thanks for any insights.                                                     
                                                                              
 sam                                                                          
                                                                              
 Sam Droege                                                   
 w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624                               
 USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center                                       
 BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD  20705          
 Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov                                                     
                                                                              
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