Formerly more widespread: there is subfossil evidence that it occurred in the main Hawaiian Islands before Polynesian settlement, and a natural population occupied Lisianski in the 1800s.<\/p>

Between 1911 and 1936, the total population was in the range of 7 to 20 individuals, all on Laysan.\u00a0 It is even thought to have reached the extreme low point of a single female with eggs in 1930.\u00a0 By 1961, however, it had rebounded to about 700.<\/p>

To address the natural vulnerability of the Laysan population, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service developed wetlands on Midway Atoll and in 2004-05 translocated 42 Laysan Ducks there.\u00a0 The Midway population has hovered around 500.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t