Once again browsing through my old files while I was stationed at the
Sacramento Nationasl Wildlife Refuges Complex in Ancient Egyptian days,
I came across that for waterfowl numbers for the Jan.-April, 1958
period. They are:

Tundra Swan 650

Total Swan 650

Canada Geese 410
Cackling Geese 49,200
White-fronted 12,100
Snow 98,800
Ross 35

Total Geese 161,195

Mallard 466,700
Pintail 1,357,600
Wigeon 578,000
Green-winged
Teal 36,600
Cinnamon Teal 195
Shoveler 24,800
Wood Duck 15
Lesser scaup 31
Ring-Necked 59
Redhead 20
Canvasback 98
Gadwall 1,475
Goldeneye 15
Com. Merganser 70
Hooded Merganser 30

Total Ducks 2,467,333

Total Waterfowl 2,6293178

In addition there were thousands more swan, geese and ducks in
surrounding wetlands in the Sacramento Valley such as the State Gray
Lodge Refuge, Butte Sink, Bean Patch, Sacramento River Bypass, etc.

The late fall (latter part of October) of 1955 while I was the refuge
biologist for several years at the Tule Lake-Klamath Basin N.W. Refuges
was a big waterfowl year. We had thousands of swan, over 1 million
geese, more than 5 million ducks and a million coot. Probably the last
big waterfowl year for the Pacific Flyway. That was one heck of a lot of
poultry. a stand up comic named Joe Penner would carry a duck under his
arm and would say, "Wanna buy a duck?' then laugh uproariously. Ah
memories, memories. Sigh!

Ye real olde broken down biologist, Gene Kridler.