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- Counties · Population trendsCoastal Louisiana's Winter Mallard Count Dropped 79% While Ring-Necks Averaged 58% MoreOver the southwest and southeast coastal zones, LDWF's December to February flights averaged 145,000 mallards per survey in 2004-05 through 2010-11 and 30,000 in 2019-20 through 2025-26. Ring-necks averaged higher but peaked in the middle years.79%drop in coastal winter mallard counts
- Counties · Population trendsCentral Adirondacks Cooperators Still Flush 1.09 Grouse per Hour, Mohawk Valley 0.17NYSDEC hunting cooperators flushed 1.09 grouse per hour in the Central Adirondacks over 2020-21 to 2025-26, against 1.18 in 2004-05 to 2009-10. The Mohawk Valley rate dropped from 1.18 to 0.17.1.09grouse flushed per hour in the Central Adirondacks
- Counties · Population trendsKansas Kept 89% of Its Same-Route June Bobwhite Count Since 1966-75, South Carolina 5%On 1,327 Breeding Bird Survey routes surveyed in both 1966-75 and 2016-25 the U.S. June bobwhite count dropped 79%. Kansas and Oklahoma lead today while Nebraska and Missouri passed Texas in 2021-25.89%of its 1966-75 June bobwhite count Kansas kept on the same routes
- Counties · Population trendsNorth Dakota's June Routes Count Twice South Dakota's Pheasants but Its Hunters Bag FewerNorth Dakota's June Breeding Bird Survey routes averaged 67.5 pheasants per run in 2021-25 against South Dakota's 33.7. Yet 2025 bags averaged 6.51 roosters per hunter in North Dakota against 9.67 in South Dakota, which killed 3.9 times as many.67.5pheasants per June route run in North Dakota, 2021-25
- Counties · Population trendsMinnesota DNR Surveys Show Twice the 1990s Share of 8-Inch BluegillPooling all gear, Minnesota DNR standard lake surveys found 5.7% of measured bluegill were 8 inches or longer in 2016 to 2025 versus 2.7% in the 1990s. Lakes still under the statewide sunfish limit climbed from 2.3% to 4.5%.5.7%of surveyed bluegill reached 8 inches, 2016 to 2025
- Counties · Population trendsWisconsin Nearly Quadrupled Large Walleye Fingerlings While Catch Rates Dropped With and Without StockingWisconsin stocked 3.7 times as many large walleye fingerlings each year in 2013 to 2025 as in 2005 to 2012. The USGS creel catalog shows walleye per angler hour falling on heavily stocked lakes and lakes without recorded walleye stocking.3.7times as many large walleye fingerlings stocked a year
- Counties · Population trendsMidwinter Now Holds Delaware's Goose Peak as November Mallard Counts Nearly DoubleAerial waterfowl counts gathered in Delaware during 1974 to 2026 place the Canada goose peak in January instead of October. October's count fell 84 percent. December snow goose counts reached about 11 times their earlier level. Mallard counts increased for November and January. January's black duck count fell 18 percent.−84 percentdrop in October Canada goose counts
- Counties · Population trendsDelaware's January Brant Average Went From About 200 per Survey Zone During the Early 2000s to the 40s Following 2010Delaware's January aerial counts averaged about 200 brant for each zone row during 1975 to 1979 and during 2000 to 2004. Completed five-year periods beginning in 2010 or later have all averaged 44 to 50. In the 2015 midwinter survey, Delaware accounted for 100 of the flyway's 111,434 brant.44 to 50January brant per survey zone row in each completed block since 2010
- Counties · Population trendsFewer winter hens drove Iowa's 17 percent pheasant dropIowa's August routes fell to 22.6 birds while brood sizes held steady, which points at winter hen loss. Compare hens with brood size before you pick a region, and know South Dakota quit its brood count in 2020.
- Counties · Population trendsIn audit simulations a changed buck harvest rate flipped the deer trendWisconsin and Pennsylvania expand the buck kill into a herd figure using harvest rates and sex and fawn ratios. Pennsylvania says its output tracks trend and was never meant as a headcount.
- Counties · Population trendsRemoving one doe group held deer down 5 years in an unhunted herdA 1991 model said removing a doe family could hold deer down for as many as 10 to 15 years. The one field test we found saw 5 years in an unhunted Adirondack herd and work on young hunted herds suggests faster refill.
- Counties · Population trendsNorthern grouse still cycle while Pennsylvania stays 25 percent downMinnesota and Wisconsin drumming still rises and falls about every 10 years. Pennsylvania flush rates since West Nile virus spread statewide in 2002 average 25 percent below the years before it.
- Counties · Population trendsDeer Ages from Teeth: Agreement, Accuracy and Missed YearsSouthern Texas trials with deer of documented age gave adult jawbone estimates 43 to 51% exact-year accuracy. Among 1,292 Iowa bucks, jawbone and cementum estimates matched the yearling-or-adult category roughly 90% of the time.90%match between jawbone and cementum yearling or adult calls, Iowa bucks
- Counties · Population trendsDeer-Vehicle Collisions as a Herd-Abundance SignalAcross thirty-six years, 3,672 observations each describe a single county for a single year. Adjusting crashes to a rate for each billion miles vehicles travel gives a free stand-in for deer abundance.1,759collision density in Schuyler County, the highest