DuckHuntin247

Last year I got letter in the mail from the department of the interior harvest surveys with a application for reporting my goose and duck harvests. They had columns for amount of birds, time date and location of kill.... and at the end of the year they asked me to send it in. Now this year they sent me a letter thanking me for participating in the survey and asked if this year they could send me envelopes to enclose particular feathers from birds to age them. So in August they send me about 30 large envelopes asking me to enclose 6 inch tips from 3 flight feathers and all the tail feathers from the geese, and the whole wing cut off from the body of ducks. They say they do this to determine how many young of the year were shot and to age the birds. I also have to fill out all the harvest information. Has this ever happened to anyone? I've never heard of this or talked to anyone that knew anything about it...

huntnteen

they do it at the checkstation at the refuges that i hunt, and my old hunting partner did it for manyy years

Chris_H

Never had them do that to me with ducks, but i do it every year with turkey.

XSV

I did it years ago when I was guiding here in Wisc. They seem to change the program a little throughout the years. I no longer do it.

wdog1

They sent me the stuff when I lived in maryland never got around to doing it though.

Cessna Flyer

I had them ask me for that info way back when, fairly painless.

kwacksmacker

i seem to get the questionaire yearly and i got the request to cut the wings off and send them to them. not gonna do it this year asdriving back and forth to the post office would kill me in the land shark

SwampCollie

They tend to put you on that list when you kill a banded bird. Sometimes being a member of DU or Delta or something like that.

You don't have to do it.... but bear in mind that it doesn't exactly take much extra time. The greater the sample pool, the more accurate the harvest data... seasons, limits all that good stuff come directly from this info along with nesting pair and nest success surveys in the spring.

DuckHuntin247

Yeah I don't mind doing it at all, I actually think it's kind of cool. So far I'vesent an envelope forI thinkall but 2 or 3 of the geese i shot. (Rushing and cleaning them late at night ) I did recieve the first questionaire the year after I shot 2 bands so that could be why I receieved that stuff. It's funny though my dad also shot 2 bands the same year as me and was never asked for any of this information.

buckclub

yeah last year they sent me the simple questionare survey you mentioned and I think i checked a box to be involved in future surveys. This set me up to get the thirty envelopes of which I have sent in all but a few as well, glad to help out when I can like someone said about the sample size, and it doesnt take to much time