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 ...

If it walks, waddles and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a mallard but might be a redhead, a scaup, a canvasback, a pintail or some similar pattern. Unlike most casual observers who suffer not if ...

The weather’s cooling off, the birds are flying south and hunters are sitting in blinds waiting for a flock to come in to their decoys. They’re also adjusting to a couple of tweaks in waterfowl bag ...

Hunters shouldn’t overlook including the purchase of a Migratory Game Bird License when buying their general hunting license online. The MGBL is required to hunt waterfowl, doves, woodcock, brant, ...

Labour is plotting a crackdown on duck hunting by reducing the number of species that can be legally shot. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has unveiled plans to offer ...

Several waterfowl-hunting buddies called this week to say that pintails were thick on flats outside the city. Maybe so, but population levels of the coastal prairie's most popular species are not what ...

Redheads nest in communal groups on marshes and wetlands, hens most often constructing a floating egg basket built on thick patches of emergent vegetation. And those hens are not above depositing ...

Waterfowl hunters spend a few moments now and then looking through old pictures of duck camp, reflecting on cold mornings and warm memories. Robbie Morphew has an even better reminder of a ...