The Arizona Game and Fish Department says hunters and residents will see higher numbers of ducks and waterfowl this year. Those numbers follow a national trend.
Officials say this is the largest population of ducks geese and other migratory birds North America has seen in 60 years.
Jonathan O'Dell is a biologist with the Arizona Game and Fish department. He says a wetter than normal monsoon season is attracting many of those birds to Arizona waterways.
"We’ll probably hold a few more ducks this year just simply because this extra water in some of the smaller ponds," O'Dell said. "Most of those ducks probably would have passed us over and gone into Mexico."
O'Dell says this year, the duck population alone is about 40 percent above average.
