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A female harlequin ducks battles the current to swim upstream in Glacier National Park's Upper McDonald Creek Aug. 10, 2022. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
September 2, 2022
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Scientists puts DNA microscope on studying harlequin duck population
While data from the harlequin’s wintering range has shown a steady decline in population numbers of the past years, gathering information from the duck’s breeding habitat has always been a struggle for biologists.