Graceful flyers with a distinctive, slender silhouette and a cautious manner, northern pintail ducks are seen in all 50 states. Early breeders and early migrants, they breed as far north as Alaska and ...

Cooking, cleaning, shepherding his two young sons to and from school — oh, and talking to mallards, wigeon, pintail and snow geese — is all in a day’s work for Shane Rossen, a 42-year-old Mill Creek ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed.

Laguna de Santa Rosa — First light lifts over the Laguna and the water stirs: pintails skim the shallows, teal chatter in tight circles, and a raft of mallards lifts off like a shaken rug. If you’ve ...

Of the 1.2 million ducks and geese at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, people from across America have been fixated for a month over a single one: a falcated duck, a nomadic teal from ...

Most duck hunters will be happy to hear that breeding ducks increased 5 percent this year compared to 2023, according to the annual duck counts published Tuesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

This year’s waterfowl population survey results will be disappointing to veteran duck hunters, but they shouldn’t be surprising. The total number of ducks dipped just below 34 million breeding ducks, ...

Winter on the North Shore offers many wonderful birding opportunities from a fine diversity of waterfowl to raptors and small birds. You can go snowshoeing in the mountains to look for treasures like ...