
09/17/2025
I mount more emperor geese than I do king eiders by a large margin. Hard to wrap my brain around, being in Colorado and not Alaska. I think the difference is I mount all Alaska resident birds, and getting out to St.Paul or Greenland is the harder feat to get Kings.
However the Emperor seasons ended this year and we don't know when they'll be open to harvest again. I do not like seeing conservation failure and its due to the substance laws in Alaska, too many are being taken year round. Tags only make up a few percent of total yearly harvest.
(The red breasted is a pen bird, so is the right hand emperor.)