On one side was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a lumbering bureaucracy out to curb the spread of a pesky fowl; on the other, thousands of duck lovers, breeders and pet owners who feared for their ...

The breeding population of ducks in North America was estimated at 32.3 million this spring, down 7% year-over-year and 9% from the long-term mean, according to the 2023 Waterfowl Population Status ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm explore duck mating behavior and feather development.

Providing food and managing disturbance are the two most important things duck managers and duck hunters can do to improve duck hunting. An expert panel accentuated those points recently during the ...

There's good news in duck-breeding country. Total duck-breeding numbers in the traditional duck breeding areas of the U.S. and Canada are at an all-time high of 45.6 million birds, according to the ...

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, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Researchers at the Alaska Sealife Center are poking into the private lives of Steller's eiders — a rare sea duck that is disappearing from its nesting grounds in Alaska. Ten males ...