Radio transmitters provide insight into winter waterfowl behavior

About 1,500 mallards make Anchorage their home in the winter but biologists don’t know why.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has a new way to track the ducks to see where they go.
For the first time, the birds are being outfitted with radio backpacks.
“The radios also have a GPS component, so when we recapture the bird we can download the data and see where the bird went,” waterfowl biologist Mike Petrula explained.
The open water at Chester Creek provides a home for hund