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Wood Duck Comeback

By James A. Swan, Ph.D.
ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

In December, when I was hunting with a group of friends on the Wilderness Unlimited properties in the Sacramento Valley around Colusa, Calif., I did something I have never done before: I bagged three wood ducks in one day. Back in the 1950s, when I was growing up along the marshes of Lake Erie, I bagged one wood duck in 20 years of serious waterfowl hunting before I migrated to the West Coast. Woodies were just not that common back then in those parts. And the limit was one per day. I know woo ...

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