FowlWeather Podcast

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Ep. 56 – Duck Senses Tingling: Duck Sight, Tactile, Hearing, and Taste Abilities. Oct 28, 2024

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The FowlWeather Podcast team is back in the home office after a successful ND trip to talk about duck senses, how well do ducks see? How do they pick you out in the marsh flying at 45mph, how do they find food in the wetland, how do they hear your call? And do ducks taste their food? All this, a polar vortex update and your migration forecast this week on The FowlWeather Migration Forecast

Ep. 55 – The Long-Term Seasonal Forecast – Part 1 Oct 21, 2024

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The FowlWeather Podcast team makes the first of 2 long-term forecasts for the season. What’s coming for cold and snow cover into December and January? Find out in this information packed episode, our North Dakota hunt, plus your weekly duck migration forecast.

Episode 54 – Chris Nicolai, Scientist w/ Delta Waterfowl Talks Prairie Conditions Oct 14, 2024

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We meet this week with Chris Nicolai to talk duck production, duck migration, and prairie conditions. A first, Pacific Flyway flight prediction, out of Alaska and cold into Oregan has ducks predicted on the move for the coming week in the west.

Ep. 53 – What’s so Great about Great Lakes Ducks? Oct 07, 2024

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The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world’s freshwater but how many ducks do they hold? Has winter ice cover changed in the Great Lakes? We also talk with Ryan Dulaney of Wildlife Strategies about impacts of Florence and Helene on duck country in the MAV and what habitat is lookin’ like for the coming season. That and The FowlWeather Podcast exclusive duck migration forecast for the week!

Ep. 52 – Our First 2024 Duck Migration Forecast Sep 30, 2024

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Riding out Hurricane Helene in SC low country, a recap of changes in weather severity through time in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways, how do game-farm mallard contribute to a declining migration?, a Baby Jager liver disease update, hurricane happenings, and our duck migration forecast.

Ep. 51 - When Do Ducks Start Migrating?, What Telemetry Doesn’t Tell Us, and A Ticking Time Bomb Sep 23, 2024

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When do ducks start to migrate? Why are there movements happening now in the absence of weather? Is GPS telemetry on ducks the panacea for all of our questions? Does telemetry tell hunters how to hunt? Does telemetry predict ducks in front of your blind?...all that and notes on the ticking time bomb of duck shooting rhetoric.

Ep. 50 – We win when everybody eats Sep 16, 2024

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How does The FowlWeather Podcast team produce weekly migration forecasts? How do ducks react differently to weather severity and why? What goes into the long-term seasonal forecasts. We unveil the new diving duck migration forecasts, a tropical system update, more on mallards, and the anxiously awaited duck migration…all of this and much more on this weeks episode of The FowlWeather Podcast.

Ep. 49 – Got Rice? – Talkin’ Wild Rice with Northern Latitude Sep 10, 2024

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Wild rice and ducks go together, like, well…. wild rice and ducks. An important duck food, wild rice also pairs well with many duck dishes. DrMike talks with young entrepreneur, McKinley Dixon of Northern Latitude Foods, producers of organic wild rice from Idaho. A family business – they harvest wild rice by home made airboat, an airplane engine repurposed that captures rice brought to the wild lakes of northern Idaho, first likely brought into the lakes by ducks, the wild rice now thrives and so does Northern Latitude Foods. That, some updates on tropical systems, increasing drought, a La Nina update, and so much more on this week’s episode of The FowlWeather Podcast.

Ep. 48 – Faith the COLD will return Sep 02, 2024

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Finding faith in the fact that it will again get COLD, DrMike takes us through the current wetland conditions in the US, talks crop production and its impact on ducks, duck shooting rhetoric 101, the lazy Atlantic tropical storm season to date, and he meets with Ryan Burnett of Pattern Pros – an innovative company looking to make your waterfowl shooting more successful and satisfying.

Ep. 47 – BONUS EPISODE: The BPOP Results Aug 22, 2024

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The results are in my friends. Duck country is alive and well. The 2024 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey, the BPOP, shows a total breeding duck population up 5% from 2023 in the traditional survey areas, but the devil is in the details. The harvest results are also in from the 2023- 2024 duck season and DrMike breaks down all these results on this special BONUS EPISODE of The FowlWeather Podcast.

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