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1 December 2006 Modeling Movement and Fidelity of American Black Ducks
NATHAN L. ZIMPFER, MICHAEL J. CONROY
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Spatial relationships among stocks of breeding waterfowl can be an important component of harvest management. Prediction and optimal harvest management under adaptive harvest management (AHM) requires information on the spatial relationships among breeding populations (fidelity and inter-year exchange), as well as rates of movements from breeding to harvest regions. We used band-recovery data to develop a model to estimate probabilities of movement for American black ducks (Anas rubripes) among 3 Canadian breeding strata and 6 harvest regions (3 in Canada, and 3 in the United States) over the period 1965–1998. Model selection criteria suggested that models containing area-, year-, and age-specific recovery rates with area- and sex-specific movement rates were the best for modeling movement. Movement by males to southern harvest areas was variable depending on the originating area. Males from the western breeding area predominantly moved to the Mississippi Flyway or southern Atlantic Flyway (Ψij = 0.353, SE = 0.0187 and Ψij = 0.473, SE = 0.037, respectively), whereas males that originated in the eastern and central breeding strata moved to the northern Atlantic flyway (Ψij = 0.842, SE = 0.010 and Ψij = 0.578, SE = 0.0222, respectively). We used combined recoveries and recaptures in Program MARK to estimate fidelity to the 3 Canadian breeding strata. Information criteria identified a model containing sex- and age-specific fidelity for black ducks. Estimates of fidelity were 0.9695 (SE = 0.0249) and 0.9554 (SE = 0.0434) for adult males and females, respectively. Estimates of fidelity for juveniles were slightly lower at 0.9210 (SE = 0.0931) and 0.8870 (SE = 0.0475) for males and females, respectively. These models have application to the development of spatially stratified black duck harvest management models for use in AHM.

NATHAN L. ZIMPFER and MICHAEL J. CONROY "Modeling Movement and Fidelity of American Black Ducks," Journal of Wildlife Management 70(6), 1770-1777, (1 December 2006). https://doi.org/10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1770:MMAFOA]2.0.CO;2
Published: 1 December 2006
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KEYWORDS
adaptive harvest management
American Black Duck
Anas rubripes
fidelity
harvest
model
movement probability
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