Looking for some sea ducks to mount can anyone help me out? Thanks

Were 7 weeks out from Spring Waterfowl, here inthe Arctic, Sea Ducks arrive with the Seagulls and Geese.....and may allready be around due to our thin ice, high winds, warm temps smashing and leading ice in our Ocean and Sound.....

But its all subject to change with the weather....
My daughter cell phone recorded a Seagull flying over the village a couple days ago......

I;m not sure how to help or the laws that were subjected to....Martentrapper might have those answers, though.....

If you can get some spring waterfowl I'll bet they would be bloomed out really nice; the problem is getting someone to send you some and stay within the law. If they where given to you it would be OK, but if it were me I wouldn't want one cent to be exchanged, not even for reimbursement of postage.

Not that knowledgeable on waterfowl. Waggler has it right is my guess.
mt

You can not use spring waterfowl for taxidermy, since the spring season is a subsistence season. Would have to be gifted birds during the fall "sport" season.

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Is there somewhere in the regs that specify that? Such as the requirement to cut horn/antlers on big game in those subsistence hunts. On Second thought, why couldn't you just glue the antlers back together? Or, is there a law that says antlers, skins, feathers, etc., must be destroyed?

https://www.fws.gov/alaska/ambcc/Regs/17%20Regs%20Book-3-14-17_Web.pdf

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Well, that's pretty clear isn't it. I like when regs are easily understood.

The cut portion of the antler has to be turned in.

Kind of odd the states and feds are flat out BEGGING folks to harvest spring snow goose and we are stuck with subsistence regs!
mt

Yep martentrapper, also don't forget those hearts and gizzards and wings on ALL spring waterfowl.

That is gonna be one LARGE pot of duck soup....!

pb

Well, if "they" ever see Yukon's idea of duck soup, we will be required to salvage EVERYTHING, including the head!

Well the snow goose hunts in the central, mississippi and eastern flyways target just snows (no specks, honkers, ducks etc.) that summer in the Canadian and Alaskan(?) arctic and are overpopulated to the detriment of the tundra (they pull out their feed by their roots). Those geese seem to have benefitted greatly over time by agriculture along the flyway providing optimum feed. Historically they more or less had to pull off a non-stop flight from summer to winter grounds and vice versa. There used to be reports of birds literally dropping dead and falling from the sky mid migration but not any more. Incidentally, these snows include the blue phase.
Pacific flyway snows are all white, no blues, winter in the Central Valley of California and nest in the Russian arctic so a distinct population.

I will never forget looking into a big steaming pot of duck soup at one of the first Athabascan potlatches I attended here in the Interior.

Only to see things looking back up at me!

Pete

I spoke with a friend of mine today that mentioned that he is finding dead Canadian geese in the silage pit near where he is trapping. In some fields the same this is happening due to 3+ feet of snow on many areas. The deer, antelope and elk aren't doing very well either.
This is down along the Big Horn River which rarely ever freezes and waterfowl winters along.
Allan

I guess "soup" is a relative term! We souped everything in the village. As kids we fought over who got the salmon gut! We didn't try to get the duck head from Gamalli (Grandma) though, we knew better.

I have seen some hunting spring ducks on tv and often wondered how you get a spring season. And it appears that it’s not only natives that can hunt. Is the season only open above the arctic circle?

The subsitence seasons are open to everyone as all subsitence hunts in AK are wih the exception of Marine mammals (Whales, Walrus,Polar Bear, etc.)who Native Alaskans , who reside on the coast, may hunt them for subsitence purposes, by treaty with the US and other govornments around the world.

Seasons for birds vary, AK is the biggest state. The Arctic has spring later and Fall earlier than the rest of the planet.

Our ''Spring'' is May and June, when the birds arrive enmass. our Fall is August/early sept. Our freezeups used to be mid -late september, but thats changing.

The birds leave at the beginning of Sept, and by the end of September, they are Goooooooooooooooone, till next May.

Anything that would be consitterd ''sellable'' or ''trophy'' gets destroyed if a body moves from where the feds qualify them to be as a subsistence user; Muskox horns are cut up and pices taken by the fed, Bear paws and nose, cut up antlers, etc.
The state takes a different stance, and it really complicate who can do what, but after a spell, we have it at least figured out where we hunt.

No subsistence for those living in urban areas.