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The article examines potential factors behind scaup, or diving duck, population declines in Canada and the US, along with a critique of current population survey procedures. While geographic heterogeneity in demographic patterns proved useful, no methodology has yet adequately explained the significant decreases in the species' breeding population since 1980.
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The body mass of lesser scaup is estimated and sex-specific variation in mass in relation to location of scaup collection, age, body morphometrics, and date of collection is analyzed with the help of samples of lesser scaup collected during fall 1999-2000 and winter 2000-2001 from Manitoba, Canada, Southward within the Mississippi Flyway to Louisiana, U.S.A. It is suggested that the factors such as habitat use, disease, parasites, and nutrient acquisition contribute to the continental scaup decline, rather than the seasonal factors.
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Research among lesser scaup captured and banded at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge and Thief Lake Wildlife Management Area in eastern Marshall County, MN, indicates that hatching-year scaup are more vulnerable to hunting than after-hatching-year scaup. It was possible to establish considerable heterogeneity attributable to banding location. It was also found that condition bias of hunter-killed birds had a significant influence on recovery rates.
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