Kris Schaumburg
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Does anyone have a list of all legally gunned North American waterfowl? I am adding to my life list a quest for all of them and need a complete listing to add to my word document. Thanks
N. American Waterfowl
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Whistling ducks-fulvous, black bellied
Swans- trumpeter, tundra
Geese- greater white-fronted,snow,ross's,emperor,canada
Brant- pacific and atlantic
Puddle ducks-woodie,american and euraisn wigeon, gadwall,gwteal, bwteal, cinn teal, mallard, black duck,mottled duck, pintail and shoveler
Divers- canvasback, redhead, ringneck duck, greater and lesser bluebill
Sea ducks-common eider, king eider, spectacled eider, stellers eider, harlequin, oldsquaw, black, white winged, and surf scoters, bufflehead, barrows and common goldeneye
Mergansers- hooded, common, and red breasted
Stiff tails- ruddy duck and maybe the masked duck
Coots- coot, moorhen, purple gallinule
im not sure if you can hunt the spectacled eider or stellers eiders
i cant think of any more off the top of my head let me know if i missed any
Swans- trumpeter, tundra
Geese- greater white-fronted,snow,ross's,emperor,canada
Brant- pacific and atlantic
Puddle ducks-woodie,american and euraisn wigeon, gadwall,gwteal, bwteal, cinn teal, mallard, black duck,mottled duck, pintail and shoveler
Divers- canvasback, redhead, ringneck duck, greater and lesser bluebill
Sea ducks-common eider, king eider, spectacled eider, stellers eider, harlequin, oldsquaw, black, white winged, and surf scoters, bufflehead, barrows and common goldeneye
Mergansers- hooded, common, and red breasted
Stiff tails- ruddy duck and maybe the masked duck
Coots- coot, moorhen, purple gallinule
im not sure if you can hunt the spectacled eider or stellers eiders
i cant think of any more off the top of my head let me know if i missed any
Lee Harker
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Tell me if I'm wrong..but wouldn't I be bumpin uglies with Bubba if I shot a Trumpeter Swan, Stellars or Spectacled Eider and got caught????
TimJ
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Adding to Ed's list
Swans-I've only seen trumpeters being shot as a discouraged but accepted risk of having a tundra swan season in a couple areas. I don't think you can target them anywhere and might not be able to keep one if an accident happened.
Geese-got to add the cackling geese since they have been split form canadas, With the great difference in subspecies you may want to have more then one of each.
not sure you can hunt the emperor right now, or in the foreseeable future
there are lesser and greater snowgeese
Puddleducks- there is a small wild population of mandarin ducks in CA. Good luck getting one of those. I suppose you could add muscovy ducks to the list as there is a slight chance of one in Texas(not sure if it legal to shoot one there) and there is a feral populations in florida
Sea ducks- Yep the spectacle and stellers eiders are a no go.
Tim
Swans-I've only seen trumpeters being shot as a discouraged but accepted risk of having a tundra swan season in a couple areas. I don't think you can target them anywhere and might not be able to keep one if an accident happened.
Geese-got to add the cackling geese since they have been split form canadas, With the great difference in subspecies you may want to have more then one of each.
not sure you can hunt the emperor right now, or in the foreseeable future
there are lesser and greater snowgeese
Puddleducks- there is a small wild population of mandarin ducks in CA. Good luck getting one of those. I suppose you could add muscovy ducks to the list as there is a slight chance of one in Texas(not sure if it legal to shoot one there) and there is a feral populations in florida
Sea ducks- Yep the spectacle and stellers eiders are a no go.
Tim
Steve Sutton
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event though its discouraged...
In Montana and Nevada, and maybe in some other States, where they both occur and whre there is a season they don't distinquish between the two species....They do "ask" that Trumpeters not be shot. I doubt many first time Swan hunters attempt to distinquish between the two....
Correct in all cases for the two Eiders and add Emperor Goose to that same list.
If you include European Wigeon then you shold also add the Euoropean Greenwing Teal. Not as common here as the Eurasian Wigeon but they do occur and it is a seperate species.
Add Cackling Canada Goose as it is now a full species.
Split the Snow Geese into Lesser and Greater.
Many serious collectors include the "distinquishable" sub-species. If you did that then you'd also want to...
Add High Arctic, or Gray Bellied Brant.
Add Tule White Fronted Goose.
Add Mexican Duck, (once a full species now lumped with the Mallard)
Add Florida Mallard, (Mottled Duck and Florida Mallard were once seperated).
And add the (10) or so sub-speices of eithr the Canada Goose or Cackling Canada Goose
There's another (5) or (6) that you'd need to add after you ran out of the ones above that "have been shot but that aren't expected".
Steve
In Montana and Nevada, and maybe in some other States, where they both occur and whre there is a season they don't distinquish between the two species....They do "ask" that Trumpeters not be shot. I doubt many first time Swan hunters attempt to distinquish between the two....
Correct in all cases for the two Eiders and add Emperor Goose to that same list.
If you include European Wigeon then you shold also add the Euoropean Greenwing Teal. Not as common here as the Eurasian Wigeon but they do occur and it is a seperate species.
Add Cackling Canada Goose as it is now a full species.
Split the Snow Geese into Lesser and Greater.
Many serious collectors include the "distinquishable" sub-species. If you did that then you'd also want to...
Add High Arctic, or Gray Bellied Brant.
Add Tule White Fronted Goose.
Add Mexican Duck, (once a full species now lumped with the Mallard)
Add Florida Mallard, (Mottled Duck and Florida Mallard were once seperated).
And add the (10) or so sub-speices of eithr the Canada Goose or Cackling Canada Goose
There's another (5) or (6) that you'd need to add after you ran out of the ones above that "have been shot but that aren't expected".
Steve
i dont know much about the swans or the emperor geese i went by the list of availible speices to draw on the federal junior duckstamp contest guidelines, and i figured you could hunt all the ones on that list. yea the canadas and their subs, and the snows and their subs, once they all start breeding the other your gonna have greater white fronted canada geese and lesser speclebellied richardson geese. anyone see the hybrids in one of the last DU's the hooded merg/whistler, and the blue/cinnimon teal. i shot a mallard black hybrid last season mallard ass on a black duck body.
eddie
eddie
memphis john
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In Nevada, they allot 600 tgs for swan. The tag states SWAN Tag. If a Trumpetor is shot , you may keep it , but once 5 have been killed, the season is closed. It is encouraged to kill Tundra swans. As for shooting something that normally does not occur in the flway- thats ok. I shot an Old Squaw and sent a pic to Fish &Game. No problem they said. If its a duck- you can whack it. Many people shoot things and let them lay so as not to get in trouble. This past season, I saw a white wing scoter left to rot at the hole I hunt- A true waste. Nevada as you know, is mostly desert , and to shoot a sea duck is rare indeed
really after i say that i should put they count torwards jail time. a few of us missisquoi bay boys call seagulls albino wigeons and water crows are cormorants and then tree mallards are crows but you can shoot crows during duck season at least for the first week.
yea no new spieces here just dumb local names
eddie
yea no new spieces here just dumb local names
eddie
