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Canada goose Ring-necked duck. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
Waterfowl species are usually the first to begin the long journey north. Those flights depart in mid-March. Shorebirds, like great blue herons and great egrets, tend to migrate throughout April.
Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States, which is located in the state of Ohio.This refuge was established in 1961, under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the purpose of the refuge being created was “… for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds.” 16 U.S.C. 715d.
The state of Ohio bought the marshland in 1951 to create the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area. [2] [3] Magee Marsh was one of the sites chosen to reintroduce the Canada goose to Ohio in the 1960s. The program hatches 9,000 to 11,000 goslings each year, making it one of the nation's most successful wildlife reintroduction programs. [3]
Here are the hunting seasons for Ohio's birds. Early waterfowl hunting. Canada Geese: Sept. 7 through Sept. 15 Teal (blue-winged, green-winged, cinnamon): Sept. 7 through Sept. 22 Youth waterfowl ...
The youth and military waterfowl hunting weekend will be Sept. 28-29. A complete list of hunting and trapping seasons dates for 2024-25 is available at wildohio.gov . ztuggle@gannett.com
Ohio: Northern cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis: 1933 [41] Oklahoma: Scissor-tailed flycatcher: Tyrannus forficatus: 1951 [42] Oregon: Western meadowlark (state songbird) [a] Sturnella neglecta: 1927 [44] 2017 [45] Pennsylvania: Ruffed grouse [b] Bonasa umbellus: 1931 Puerto Rico: Puerto Rican spindalis (de facto) Spindalis portoricensis — [47 ...
In a Facebook post this week, the Ohio Division of Wildlife reports that black-bellied whistling-ducks have been spotted with ducklings at a wildlife area in Wayne County, northwest of Tuscarawas ...