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While flying the Illinois Natural History Survey's weekly aerial waterfowl survey, Joshua Osborn made obvious note of the high water on the Illinois River (make that flooding in some areas) ahead of the central-zone opener on Saturday, but he also found some hope in the numbers.

While flying the Illinois Natural History Survey's weekly aerial waterfowl survey, Joshua Osborn made obvious note of the high water on the Illinois River (make that flooding in some areas) ahead of the central-zone opener on Saturday, but he also found some hope in the numbers.
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Joshua Osborn thinks the cooler weather, especially to our north, might have pushed some ducks south in time for Illinois' north-zone opener Saturay for ducks and Canada geese.

Joshua Osborn thinks the cooler weather, especially to our north, might have pushed some ducks south in time for Illinois' north-zone opener Saturay for ducks and Canada geese.
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The latest aerial teal flight, including the PDF files, by the Illinois Natural History Survey shows blue-winged teal moving on, but more northern pintails showing up; and Joshua Osborn does a quick breakdown of habitat conditions.

The latest aerial teal flight, including the PDF files, by the Illinois Natural History Survey shows blue-winged teal moving on, but more northern pintails showing up; and Joshua Osborn does a quick breakdown of habitat conditions.
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Ducks are holding on, according to the INHS aerial survey this week along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, but major changes are coming with true winter weather arriving.

We flew the waterfowl survey on Tuesday, December 22
nd. Coincidentally, this flight was on the last day of Illinois’ central zone duck season. We had noticeable ice on several of the refuges, especially on the northern reaches of both the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Duck numbers along the Illinois River (249,625) were similar to the previous week and still remained well above average for late December.
The central Mississippi River was a different story. Duck numbers dropped (~50%) along the lower Mississippi River from Quincy to Grafton; however, there were still nearly 300,000 ducks along the river this week. We just didn’t see the large concentrations of ducks at Swan Lake (Two Rivers NWR), Long Lake, Cuivre, Batchtown SFWA, Towhead, Delair NWR, or Ted Shanks CA. We are not sure where the ducks went, but they weren’t in their usually spots on the refuges. With the frigid weather arriving over the Christmas holiday, I suspect there will be fewer birds next w ....

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