Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mallard hen sitting inside a manmade duck nesting house. (Photograph courtesy of Delta Waterfowl) It’s been a good few days for ...

Ducks are mysterious, which is part of their attraction. By species, they can appear wildly different from one another — think florid male wood ducks and more subtly colored male ringnecks. Their ...

PETERSBURG, N.D. -- Mike Graue and Tom Rohlck spent the better part of last week traveling via all-terrain vehicle through or over sometimes ice-covered sloughs along U.S. Highway 2. They were ...

Michigan State University PhD student Ben Luukkonen takes measurements of a mallard hen held by Shannon Stemaly with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources while Kylie McElrath with Ducks ...

In the 1999-2000 duck season, duck hunters killed nearly 1.13 million mallards compared to about 311,000 in the 2022-23 duck season. That's a 72% reduction. Luke Naylor, chief of the Arkansas Game and ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Graduation night for preschool students at First Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Minn., Monday, May 24, had a special visitor. One hen mallard sat still as a statue on a nest, ...

Last year waterfowlers across the country commiserated about one of their worst duck seasons ever. The ducks, they said, just never showed up. Or when birds did come through their areas, they were in ...

A mallard hen plucked her own well-camouflaged down to build a nest in the landscaping of Lil' Cooperstown Bar and Grill in Oregon City. The duck sits quietly as restaurant customers come and go just ...

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases its annual waterfowl harvest report, Arkansas will probably lead the nation in the number of mallards killed. We always do, but how? All of my sources ...

A mallard drake hatched near Sandpoint was the featured attraction in a December duck hunt in Alabama. Two of the ducks killed on Dec. 29 by Richard Manry of Birmingham were wearing leg bands. Like ...