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Kenneth J. Reinecke, Charles W. Shaiffer, Don Delnicki, Band Reporting Rates of Mallards in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, The Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), pp. 526-531
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