What a bird brings
Type a maker and a species for the typical price of exactly that bird, or read down the chart to see where every maker's birds sell.
Most birds sell inside this range (middle 80% of sales)A typical saleLog scale — each gridline is ten times the last
- Shang Wheeler10 sales · Connecticut$11,640$100,800$57,000
- Enoch Reindahl11 sales · Great Lakes$1,110$132,000$8,400
- Robert Elliston16 sales · Illinois River$885$33,000$5,700+206% vs last year
- Elmer Crowell132 sales · Cape Cod$933$77,400$4,500+114% vs last year
- Charles Perdew24 sales · Illinois River$759$94,800$3,450+15% vs last year
- Ward Brothers191 sales · Eastern Shore$840$16,800$3,3000% vs last year
- Joseph Lincoln26 sales · Cape Cod$360$79,800$2,970+141% vs last year
- Chauncey Wheeler41 sales · Other$630$15,600$2,400
- Bert Graves30 sales · Illinois River$897$18,600$2,340-13% vs last year
- John R. Wells11 sales · Ontario$450$19,200$2,100
- Harvey Stevens10 sales · Other$648$28,680$1,920
- George Boyd41 sales · Other$960$3,360$1,800-50% vs last year
- Gus Wilson19 sales · Maine$594$5,040$1,800-25% vs last year
- Thomas Chambers17 sales · Ontario$552$4,800$1,560
- Oliver Lawson67 sales · Eastern Shore$660$5,040$1,4400% vs last year
- Ira Hudson77 sales · Eastern Shore$378$13,200$1,200+51% vs last year
- Ken Anger32 sales · Ontario$363$5,310$1,005
- Mason Decoy Factory355 sales · Great Lakes$210$5,100$930+48% vs last year
- Cigar Daisey53 sales · Eastern Shore$425$2,064$870-26% vs last year
- John Daddy Holly11 sales · Chesapeake Bay$480$10,800$840
- Keyes Chadwick23 sales · Cape Cod$342$2,100$750-69% vs last year
- Harry V. Shourds56 sales · New Jersey$210$6,420$720+26% vs last year
- Charlie Joiner109 sales · Chesapeake Bay$474$1,680$690+15% vs last year
- Doug Jester56 sales · Eastern Shore$204$4,950$675+2% vs last year
- Tom Schroeder18 sales · Great Lakes$402$5,940$675+7% vs last year
- David W. Nichol41 sales · Ontario$330$2,520$660
- Corb Reed16 sales · Eastern Shore$315$1,365$615
- Ben Schmidt69 sales · Great Lakes$330$2,580$540-50% vs last year
- John McLoughlin11 sales · New Jersey$300$810$510
- Miles Hancock75 sales · Eastern Shore$270$1,392$444
- Lloyd Tyler37 sales · Eastern Shore$154$3,288$420
- Dodge Factory22 sales · Great Lakes$137$2,970$390-28% vs last year
- Evans Decoy Company14 sales · Great Lakes$135$3,210$390
- Hurley Conklin13 sales · New Jersey$145$618$300
- R. Madison Mitchell143 sales · Chesapeake Bay$134$780$300-17% vs last year
- William Heverin20 sales · Chesapeake Bay$174$885$286-13% vs last year
- Bob McGaw27 sales · Chesapeake Bay$114$2,040$270-40% vs last year
- Wildfowler Decoy Company19 sales · Connecticut$90$534$2700% vs last year
- Paul Gibson28 sales · Chesapeake Bay$87$300$160
- James Currier21 sales · Chesapeake Bay$60$468$133
Sales at American Sporting Auctions, GC Decoys, Guyette & Deeter and Zebs Auctions, last twelve months, buyer's premium included. Makers with fewer than 10 sales aren't shown. The one in ten above and below each bar are the exceptional birds and the rough ones. A change against last year needs 15 sales at both ends. How these numbers are made