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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 308281" data-attributes="member: 389">Having grown up in the New Town area, I think I can say that there were plenty of waterfowl moving south in that area during the 1980s.  Effectively, they seem to follow the Prairie Pothole Region of ND.  And the western edge of that roughly starts in western ND and hugs the Missouri all the way south and into SD.  I suppose the USFWS efforts over the past century to produce stop over points in western ND for waterfowl has had some effect on this (Audubon, Ilo, White Lake, etc).  Some years they follow the western edge of the PPR whereas other years they tend to be more concentrated in the central part of it (Kenmare-Devils Lake) and even other years the flights seem to concentrate from DL and east.Last year at this point I saw incredible numbers of birds in the Pipestem and James River areas following the late fall snow and rains that left huge fields inundated and gave them great roosts in which they could swim around and browse the unharvested beans.  I don't know if waterfowl as a whole have preferred crops, they probably do.  But small grains and row crops are now all the way across ND where in the 80s there were not so many row crops in the western one-third of the state. I guess the only pattern I think I've noticed over the years is that the southward migration is spread across a 200 mile swath of ND in the fall, but the northward migration tends to be more concentrated (maybe 100 miles wide) come the spring flights. But that is also probably an anecdotal observation as opposed to something one can scientifically support with unbiased data.</blockquote>

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