Ducks are mysterious, which is part of their attraction. By species, they can appear wildly different from one another — think florid male wood ducks and more subtly colored male ringnecks. Their ...

Mike Wec was having a tough morning. The Massachusetts marsh he was hunting on Dec. 15 had frozen over despite the wind, and breaking 75 yards of ice just so he could paddle to his spot earned him ...

Michigan State University PhD student Ben Luukkonen takes measurements of a mallard hen held by Shannon Stemaly with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources while Kylie McElrath with Ducks ...

It’s been a good few days for waterfowlers. Not only are northern birds starting to work their way down the continental flyways, but today President Biden signed into law the Duck Stamp Modernization ...

It's a conservation partnership spanning nearly one thousand miles, just in time for spring. Over the next few months, hundreds of mallard ducks in Northeast Wisconsin will have a new, safer place to ...

In the 1999-2000 duck season, duck hunters killed nearly 1.13 million mallards compared to about 311,000 in the 2022-23 duck season. That's a 72% reduction. Luke Naylor, chief of the Arkansas Game and ...

This wild mallard hen was sitting on thin ice. The pool she sat on was very shallow, with bits of vegetation extending above the ice. Although wild ducks are able to fly at night, this hen stayed put ...

To the apparent surprise of its wildlife management staff and administration, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission voted to present a different-than-agreed-upon duck season structure for 2024-25.

Ducks are mysterious, which is part of their attraction. By species, they can appear wildly different from one another — think florid male wood ducks and more subtly colored male ringnecks. Their ...