Entries Tagged Ducks

This video is proof you don’t need tons of expensive gear to be a successful duck hunter.

After a two year absence due to COVID, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service conducted their annual Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey during spring 2022. The latest information looks like good news for waterfowl and waterfowlers.

Believe it or not, what you see here isn’t a taxidermy mount of two ducks. It’s a birthday cake!

When snow geese and specklebellies are so numerous that they look like a tornado — a “snow-nado” — there comes a time to stop shooting and simply watch the show.

It takes only a split-second for a waterfowl hunt to turn deadly. Learn from this true-life story of survival.

Blue-winged teal and early migrating ducks are beginning their annual trek south, and nearly all of the moist-soil units managed to produce food on Arkansas public land are in excellent condition to welcome them.

A spring survey of breeding ducks in North Dakota showed numbers still remain in the top 20 of all time despite being down 5 percent from last year.

Tests on more than 750 ducks shot by Minnesota hunters this fall have turned up no signs of the kind of bird flu that devastated the Midwest poultry industry earlier this year.

Wildlife managers in the upper Midwest expect the first results next week from tests that could provide an early warning on whether ducks flying south for the winter are carrying the deadly kind of bird flu that devastated the region's poultry earlier this year.

Miles on the truck and scouting with optics is always a smart bet for finding ducks on public land. But sometimes you can find birds just by listening to where all the shooting is happening.

The latest figures from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service show a record number of ducks this year across northern prairies of the U.S. and the Canadian boreal forest despite a drier than normal winter.