US Geological Survey
Date of this Version
2000
Abstract
Spring snow storms can influence migration chronology and nutrient-reserve dynamics of waterfowl in Nebraska.
For centuries, the Rainwater Basin and Platte River Valley of central Nebraska have attracted millions of migrating waterfowl during spring. While in this region, females begin to accumulate fat and protein reserves needed for egg-laying and for recruitment of young.
Comments
Published in Waterfowl 2000 12:2 (1999), p. 18.