Relationship With Humans
This species is commonly hunted. Annual bag figures in the late 1970s were about 188,000 birds in the USA and about 360,000 in Canada. Even though it has been deemed Of Least Concern by IUCN, in the United States this bird is a protected species according to many northern states' hunting rules.
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