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Ornithologist Jameson Chace and his students at Salve Regina University walk the Cliff Walk in Newport every other week from December through March to count the ducks they see in the water. They often count large numbers of scoters, eiders, scaup, buffleheads and goldeneyes, but their numbers vary significantly from year to year.
The same phenomenon occurs throughout Narragansett Bay: Large numbers of ducks are observed some years and many fewer during other years. No one seems to know why.
âBecause birds move around a lot, we canât really say much about trends, but there have been years when Iâve seen rafts of scoters in massive numbers and many years when thereâs not,â said Chace, a professor of biology at Salve Regina and president of the Wilson Ornithological Society.