Ecology of breeding Long-tailed Ducks on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska

Project Number: 7

Year Funded: 2004

Lead Institution(s): USGS Alaska Science Center

Project Lead: Paul Flint

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Location: Alaska

Focal Species: Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)

Project Description: Population indices of Long-tailed Ducks in sub-arctic Alaska show a continuous, and statistically significant, population decline since 1976, resulting in current population size estimates that are about 25% of the mid-1970’s estimates. Thus, Region 7 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has identified Long-tailed Ducks as a ‘species at risk’.