3-165A Solicitation to Participate in Waterfowl Harvest Survey

United States Department of the Interior
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Division of Migratory Bird Management
10815 Loblolly Pine Dr., Laurel, MD 20708
1-800-419-2965 (phone) 301-497-5981 (fax)

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JOHN Q. PUBLIC
1881WATERFOWL SURVEY DR.
LAUREL, MD 20708
Dear John Public:
Each year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service conducts the Waterfowl Parts Collection Survey, in which we ask
selected hunters to send us one wing from each duck and the tail feathers and wing tips from each goose that
they shoot during the hunting season. This provides us with crucial information on species, age, and sex
composition of waterfowl harvest across the U.S. Participants are typically sampled from hunters that
participate in our Migratory Bird Harvest (MBHS) Diary Survey. This year, we are supplementing that sample
by asking HIP registrants who indicated that they are waterfowl hunters to participate. We are requesting your
help in this important national monitoring program. Volunteering to send us these parts from the birds that you
bag will provide us with the information we need for sound management of waterfowl harvest.
Biologists will examine your specimens to determine the bird’s species, age, and sex. This information is vital
to helping us better manage our waterfowl resource. For example, the specimens that hunters contribute will
allow us to estimate the number of young-of-the-year birds that were harvested, which tells us how successful
the birds were during the nesting season. After we have examined all of the duck wings and goose tail feathers
and wing tips next spring, we will send you a species, sex and age report on all the waterfowl parts that we
received from you.
If you will be able to send us wings from the birds that you bag, please provide the information requested below
and return this letter in the postage-paid envelope. Please return it by 07/12/2013, so that we can send your
postage-paid wing envelopes in time for the hunting season.
If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected], or call us at
1-800-419-2965 between 7:00 am and 4:00 pm, Eastern time. Again, thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Khristi Wilkins
Chief, Branch of Harvest Surveys
In accordance with the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C 522a) and the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501), please note the following information. The information that you provide will be used for estimating migratory bird hunter activity and harvest in the United States.
It is our policy not to use your name for any other purpose. All names and identifying information will be removed when we compile the results and only summary information will be reported. Information is maintained in accordance with the Privacy Act. Your
response is voluntary. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to information collection unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. This information collection has been approved by OMB and assigned OMB
Control No. 1018-0023. We estimate that it will take you about 1 minute to read the instructions and check the box at the bottom of the letter. Comments on this form should be mailed to the Information Collection Clearance Officer, Mail Stop 2042-PDM,
U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. 20240.

Form 3-165A
Rev 06/12

0MB No. 1018-0023
APPROVAL EXPIRES APR 14, 2014

____ Yes, I will be able to send you one wing from each duck and the tail feathers and wing tips from each
goose that I shoot this upcoming hunting season.
The number of ducks and geese I usually bag is: ___ 1-10 ___ 11-20 ___ more than 20.
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