For you podcast listeners go to Duck Season Somewhere and listen to "Mallard Rockstars". They provide genetic evidence on how/why old world genes are ruining new world populations. Fascinating and very sad.
For you podcast listeners go to Duck Season Somewhere and listen to "Mallard Rockstars". They provide genetic evidence on how/why old world genes are ruining new world populations. Fascinating and very sad.
We're all aware of the reasons. The sad part is there is way too much money involved with the clubs releasing tamies. That's the reason it's still legal and will stay legal.
Shoot we've got places protecting wild hogs so that they can charge $300 to shoot one. If we can't get that outlawed, we'll never get releasing tamies outlawed.
Old world is going to mess up new world?
That sounds backwards to GMO seeds compromising non GMO?
Yup, he's crazy...
like a fox. The dude may be coming in a little too hard and crazy but 90% of everything he says is correct.
Sort of like Toof. But way smarter.
~Scatter Shot
^^^ I'm glad somebody else saw that also.
Groundbreaking 30 year old news...
Someone please send me a link to the literature showing gene sequencing in wild mallard populations 30 years ago. I must be really stupid. I can't find it. Maybe I misspelled "Google".
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
Whenever man interferes with nature the results are seldom good. The exception the North American conservation model which saved wildlife populations for man’s exploitation.
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
Yup, he's crazy...
like a fox. The dude may be coming in a little too hard and crazy but 90% of everything he says is correct.
Sort of like Toof. But way smarter.
~Scatter Shot
While it might be hard to imagine today, mallards were once rarely encountered throughout much of the Atlantic Flyway. That began to change during the 20th century, as the expansion of agriculture in eastern Canada opened the Boreal forest, creating ideal habitat for pioneering mallards from the west. To the south, in the eastern United States, government agencies and private citizens worked for decades to establish a huntable mallard population through the large-scale release of game-farm birds. Mallard numbers grew exponentially in the east, and by the 1960s, the greenhead had become the most abundant duck in the Atlantic Flyway.
Yup, he's crazy...
like a fox. The dude may be coming in a little too hard and crazy but 90% of everything he says is correct.
Sort of like Toof. But way smarter.
~Scatter Shot
Interesting the early data shows wild (New World) mallards rarely hybridize. All of these mallard- black duck, mallard-pintail, etc hybrids are all Old World genes.
It aint never gonna stop as long as people are lining their politician’s pockets.
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