A powerful argument can be made that the spring season is the best of Minnesota’s four yearly quarters. Despite being a fervent hunter, I have to agree. Fall is a season of harvest that takes place ...

No time is a bad time to look at ducks, but spring is an especially good time. The ducks are in “high color” at this time of year, they are abundant and most of them are easy to identify. Charlie ...

With migration in full swing, New Hampshire birders are seeing lots of traffic on the water, and on the wing.Included in the New Hampshire Audubon's rare bird alert for April 13 is a report of a ...

For the first time on record, hunters in Minnesota in 2022 shot more blue-winged teal and ring-necked ducks than mallards A mallard drake rises from a wetland. For the first time ever, Minnesota ...

For dyed-in-the-wool waterfowlers, the fall bird migrations bring hope for game bags stretched full of colorful, varying duck species. On any given day during duck season, unseen natural events like ...

Perhaps a more accurate name for Ring-necked Ducks would have been Ring-billed Ducks. The ring on the neck does exist, but it is tough to see. Biologists in the 1800s noticed it when using dead ...