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| Geese, swans, whistling ducks |
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| Only species of duck to become extinct in historical times |
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| Year early blue winged teal season was initiated |
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| cream wormlike protazoan parasite in flight mussels. |
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| Avg weight of adult Trumpter swan (Cygnus buccinator) |
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| weight of lesser snow goose |
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| avg weight male wood duck |
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| Indicators of flooding stress on bottomland trees |
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yellowing of leaves
loss of flowering
butt swelling on red oaks
tip die back
large dead branches (no reversal possible) |
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Quercus (of swamps) palustris
Fagace
120 years avg |
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Quercus (oaks) bicolor
350 years lifespan |
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| Year wood ducks were opened back up to harvest |
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| avg wood duck clutch size |
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12 eggs
over 15 - dump nest |
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| elm, sassafras, honey locust, maple, ash |
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| Species of clover to interseed in fescue |
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| Species to remove from woodlots |
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| Maple and ash 50% canopy closure |
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| 3 building blocks of quail management |
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| woodland and wooded edges, grassland (warm season and forbes), cropland or early successional idle land |
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| types of warm season grasses and forbes to plant of bobwhite |
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| Little bluestem (1lb/acre), side oats gramma & partridge pea. Plant in april or may. |
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| Desirable shrubs for field borders |
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| crab apple, hawthorne, wild plum, gray dogwood, silky dogwood & hazelnut |
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| What % bare ground near nesting cover for quail |
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| Explorer who went up Mississippi |
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| Source lake of Mississippi |
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| Invented self scouring plow in 1830's |
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| small bumplike projections on the bottom of eagles that help hold on to slippery fish |
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| Incubation length of eagle eggs |
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| Primary fish in eagle diet |
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| Immediate jeopardy of extinction |
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| Coopers has shorter outer tail feathers giving curved appearance to tail, eyes towards front of head, head appears large, slower wing beats than sharpie and head projects far beyond the wings. |
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| trees to remove from shrubby field borders managed for quail |
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| oak ash hackberry mulberry & osage orange |
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| nest density and hatching success for bobwhites |
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1 nest/acre
50% hatching success
80% annual mortality |
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| warm season grasses and forbes beneficial to quail |
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| little bluestem(2lbs/acre) sideoats gramma(2 lbs/acre) and forb mix(1lb/acre) planted in april or may |
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| most important food items for bluebills in IL |
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| Fingernail clams(musculium sp),snails (gastropoda) burrowing mayflies |
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| What is contained in a bud |
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| Next years leaves twigs and flowers |
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| choc colored bark internally, leaf scar looks like face of a monkey |
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| What species of asian carp leaps out of water |
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| Why is dump nesting an asset? |
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| Dump nesting female usually goes on to have her own clutch... |
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| Number of eggs to be considered a dump nest |
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| When do wood duck hens begin to add a significant amount of down to the clutch? |
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| When the 4th egg is layed |
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| Have wood ducks and hooded mergansers been found laying eggs together in the same nest? |
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| Incubation length of wood duck clutch |
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Mode is 31 days, mean 30.8 days
27-33 days |
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| Another name for prothonotary warbler |
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| Peak historical duck population estimate |
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| What type of habitat do cattle egrets usually forage in? |
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| What continent did the cattle egret come from and what year US |
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| How many fluid ounces in a gallon |
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| 128. 7.5 bottles of water per gallon |
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| How many feathers on a turkey |
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| Can a hen renest without being rebred by a gobbler |
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| Yes. Sperm stored in oviduct for a month |
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| What percent of waterfowl harvest do wood ducks compose? |
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| How much was CRP acerage cut by the 2014 farm bill? |
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| species that grow well when inundated |
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false pimpernal, toothcup,
and water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica) |
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| Year Cuivre club established |
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| Year first refuge established |
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| 1903, Pelican Island - Theodore Roosevelt |
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| how many refuges in Mo and how many acres? |
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| 6 refuges- more than 60,000 acres |
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| Act and year that banned spring waterfowl hunting and sale |
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| How to identify a post oak |
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| Quercus stelatta- pubescense in starlike clusters on underside of leaf. Leaf 3 lobes looks like a cross. Sandy soil |
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| 1000 bc - 900 ad. bow & arrow, corn, long term settlements |
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| 900 ad - 1400 ad. Intensive horticulture (corn and squash). Large population centers. |
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| What year did Pere (father) Marquette explore the region? |
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