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Flight Numbers

“In the short term, adult ducks don’t die from drought. But they’re not going to produce ducklings”

This is the time of year when duck hunters’ imaginations turn to the North, as the first fall weather systems gather in Canada, and the age-old question looms: How many ducks will fly this year?

For the first time in a long time, no one really knows. Since 1955, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service have flown

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