Look around the Mississippi flyway this fall, and you may see the greater or lesser scaup ("SKOPP"). Scaups are diving ducks that can fully submerge and swim underwater for food.

The best early-season waterfowl hunting depends on scouting and understanding bird movement as the birds’ preferred food ...

Here's an interesting display of passive survival techniques from a wood duck and family with ducklings where the drake plays dead whilst the others hide. I happened to accidentally stumble upon them ...

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 ...

“You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” — Katherine Arden, Small Spaces ...

BRAINERD — When duck hunting on public waters, opening-day hunters arrive in the pre-dawn, often an hour or two prior to shooting time, which is one-half hour before sunrise. The idea is to hopefully ...

For duck hunters and their dogs, the first day of the season is the best time of year. That’s because the chance to pull on waders and slog through wetlands and shallow lakes in the still-dark of ...

This story, “Ducks Plus,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. My friend Vic was taking me duck hunting in a jeep that jounced and bumped through weird desert coun­try south of Sasabe in ...

Another study in a series on Wood Ducks at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve has found that 2024 was a productive year for the birds, with record-high nesting attempts, eggs laid, eggs hatched, and ...

Between a new starting quarterback, a new-look offensive line and changes occurring all the way down the Oregon Ducks’ roster, the differences in Oregon coach Dan Lanning’s squad have been a topic of ...

The Rocky River Nature Center, 24000 Valley Parkway in North Olmsted, recently added an oversized sculpture of a male wood duck to its natural play space. The sculpture was built by the park’s ...

PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio – There are mallard ducks in Lake Erie, canvasback ducks and wood ducks. And coming soon: the world’s largest rubber duck. The bright yellow plastic duck, measuring 61 feet high, 64 ...