Table 5.
Waterfowl densities by lake (birds/shoreline mile). Complete shoreline waterfowl surveys conducted in mid-July determined the definitive host diversity on each lake. Data are in birds/shoreline mile. Asterisks (*) indicate lakes were common mergansers are actively relocated.
| Lake | Bird |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallard | Canada Goose | Mute Swan | Common Merganser | Hooded Merganser | Red Breasted Merganser | |
| Lake Charlevoix | 7.08 | 2.78 | 0.10 | 1.12 | 0.30 | 0.00 |
| Elk Lake | 5.25 | 1.54 | 0.14 | 0.54 | 0.00 | 0.21 |
| Big Glen Lake | 8.70 | 0.65 | 0.37 | 0.28* | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Little Glen Lake | 9.22 | 1.25 | 0.00 | 4.22* | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| North Lake Leelanau | 6.27 | 0.87 | 0.40 | 0.07* | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| South Lake Leelanau | 14.12 | 1.72 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.00 |
| Lime Lake | 8.33 | 0.95 | 0.00 | 0.48* | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Long Lake | 6.47 | 0.66 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.00 |
| Lake Skegemog | 2.73 | 1.20 | 0.93 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Walloon Lake | 1.61 | 1.34 | 0.00 | 1.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 |