Water Fowl Conservation Vocab.

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Across
  1. 3. method used to track bird population movements by placing a band on a foot or around neck of a bird
  2. 4. destroying something completely
  3. 5. providing a motivation, often financial
  4. 8. large aquatic birds
  5. 10. naturally belonging
  6. 12. in an unsystematic and unregulated manner
  7. 15. continued possession
  8. 16. strategy used to return land to a productive habitat after it has been converted or degraded
  9. 17. administrative management units for waterfowl in North America
  10. 18. energy required for maintaining biological processes in an organism
  11. 20. mating pair
  12. 21. dead vegetation remaining after harvest
  13. 22. group of hatched offspring
  14. 23. classification of animal which is not hunted for sport
  15. 24. temporary migratory habitats
  16. 25. upcoming flight path, assuming current patterns
Down
  1. 1. lease to ensure landowners are compensated for maintaining the habitat is suitable for waterfowl
  2. 2. hardware and software used to map and analyze data connected to geographic areas
  3. 6. animals which feed on insects
  4. 7. not having enough
  5. 9. obtaining possession
  6. 11. deterioration
  7. 13. number of organisms a specified area is able to support
  8. 14. Birds birds with long, soft feathers
  9. 19. survey conducted by Fish and Wildlife Survey annually to determine productivity of a species in a population by identifying waterfowl parts