TY - GEN
T1 - Ducks, Geese, and Coots: A 13-Year Summary of The Illinois River Valley
AU - Yetter, Aaron P.
AU - Hine, Christopher S.
AU - Gilbert, Andrew D.
AU - Osborn, Joshua M.
AU - Fournier, Auriel M. V.
AU - Beach, Cheyenne R.
AU - Klimas, Samuel T.
N1 - 80th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, January 26-29, 2020, Springfield, IL
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Illinois River valley has historically been important to migrating, and more recently, wintering waterfowl. Prior to 2007, Chautauqua NWR was the most important migratory waterfowl refuge in the IRV; however, following restoration of the Emiquon Preserve and Emiquon NWR, a new player came to be. Emiquon/Spoon River Bottoms has taken over the top spot for migratory waterbirds and since 2007 has ranked 1.5 of 24 refuges in the IRV. Emiquon on average hosts nearly 20% to the total duck use-days during fall migration and nearly 70% of the American coot numbers from 2007–2018. When managed cooperatively, Emiquon Preserve, Emiquon NWR, and Chautauqua NWR provide ~5,000 ha of diverse emergent marsh that give us a glimpse of what the historic Illinois Valley was like prior to prior to European settlement.
AB - The Illinois River valley has historically been important to migrating, and more recently, wintering waterfowl. Prior to 2007, Chautauqua NWR was the most important migratory waterfowl refuge in the IRV; however, following restoration of the Emiquon Preserve and Emiquon NWR, a new player came to be. Emiquon/Spoon River Bottoms has taken over the top spot for migratory waterbirds and since 2007 has ranked 1.5 of 24 refuges in the IRV. Emiquon on average hosts nearly 20% to the total duck use-days during fall migration and nearly 70% of the American coot numbers from 2007–2018. When managed cooperatively, Emiquon Preserve, Emiquon NWR, and Chautauqua NWR provide ~5,000 ha of diverse emergent marsh that give us a glimpse of what the historic Illinois Valley was like prior to prior to European settlement.
KW - INHS
UR - http://j6iidu.m.attendify.com/app/sessions/9okrPGVQKbw59HNdKM/details
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference 2020
ER -