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|a Wintering Waterfowl in Everglades National Park |h [electronic resource] |b Report T-670 |y English. |
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|a Homestead ; |a Florida : |b National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, |c 1982-06. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Florida contains large tracts of wetland habitat covering, by one ten-year old ~
estimate, nearly 7 million hectares (Shaw and Fredine 1971). These wetlands
provide wintering habitat for many types of water birds, including waterfowl.
From 17 to 26% of the ducks censused in the Atlantic flyway have been reported to
winter in Florida (Chamberlain 1960), but waterfowl populations wintering in
Florida are believed to have undergone decreases and developed altered migration
schedules because of loss of habitat within the state and concurrent improvement
of habitat conditions further north (Crider 1968, Rodgers 1974, Goodwin 1979).
The estuaries of Everglades National Park, at the southern tip of Florida, traditionally
supported wintering waterfowl, which because of legislative policy have not
been hunted since the establishment of the park in 1947. Rodgers (1974) suggested
that about 15,000-25,000 ducks winter there annually, with the number using the
area varying from year-to-year, primarily in response to weather and other
conditions in the flyway further north. Little is known about waterfowl in the Everglades estuary. The only previous published study was Klukas and Lockets (1970) report of fowl cholera among coots (Fulica americana) in 1967-68. There has been no systematic assessment of waterfowl use of Everglades estuaries. In this paper, we analyze the status and the seasonal and geographic distribution of waterfowl wintering in the southern and southwestern coastal areas of Florida, based on available historical data and on the results of censuses conducted over
three years. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |c South Florida Natural Resource Center, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a South Florida Natural Resource Center. |
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|a SuDoc number: I 29.95: T-670 |
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|a Everglades National Park (Fla.). |
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|a South Florida Natural Resources Center/South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park. |
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|a Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades. |
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|a South Florida Collection. |
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|a Federal Documents Collection. |
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|a dpSobek |c Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI08219670/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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