Survival of postfledging female American black ducks
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Abstract
We equipped 106 hatching-year (HY), female, black ducks (Anas rubripes) with transmitters during 1985-87 and monitored survival from late August to mid-December on a lightly hunted area on the Maine-New Brunswick border. The 1985-87 estimate of survival (hunting losses included) was 0.593, and when losses from hunting were censored it was 0.694. Survival in August-September was 0.987; by 31 October survival declined to 0.885, and by 30 November it was 0.718. Most nonhunting mortality was caused by predators (21/41, 53.2%); there were 14 deaths (34.1%) from mammals or unknown predators and 7 (17.1%) from raptors. Hunting caused 13 (31. 7%) deaths. Ducks with lowest mass had the lowest survival. The estimate of survival for postfledging female black ducks, when multiplied with interval survival rates for hunting, winter, and breeding periods, produced an annual survival estimate of 0.262, about 12% lower than that (0.38) based on analysis of banding data.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Survival of postfledging female American black ducks |
| Series title | Journal of Wildlife Management |
| DOI | 10.2307/3809501 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year Published | 1991 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 573 |
| Last page | 580 |
| Country | Canada, United States |
| State | Maine |
| Other Geospatial | Maine-New Brunswick border |
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