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Game & Fish Release Midwinter Waterfowl Survey

Each fall, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department conducts a wetland survey. This year’s survey showed poor to fair wetland conditions for duck hunting throughout the state.

My duties as an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department are varied. Written By: Doug Leier / N.D. Game and Fish | 12:46 pm, Feb. 28, 2021 × The 10-year average for the midwinter survey in North Dakota is 107,400 Canada geese and 21,800 mallards. N.D. Game and Fish photo My duties as an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department are varied. For example, I help with other Game and Fish functions such as checking on fishing access sites, possible fish kills or conducting upland and small game surveys. One of the surveys is a count of wat...

listen live watch live It occurs the first week of January in all 50 states. Andy Dinges, department migratory game bird biologist, said the midwinter waterfowl survey is the longest-running coordinated migratory bird survey in North America. It got its start in 1935 as an effort to estimate continental populations. At the time, breeding ground surveys had not yet started, and even today, some of the Arctic-nesting goose species are difficult to survey because of the remoteness of their breeding grounds. In early January, all of the continent’s geese, ducks and swans are somewhere more acce...