The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting. "It's nothing like it used to be," Larson said this past week with Minnesota's duck season ...

Over the decades, I have made many trips to the New River. While it is confusing to folks who are more familiar with the mountain region of the state rather than the southeast coast, our destination ...

This week’s nature series features the Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis, one of our most common diving ducks that is well known to hunters as the little bluebill or broadbill. This bird is common locally ...

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 decision Thursday to significantly restrict the scaup (bluebill) harvest by Mississippi Flyway duck hunters this fall emboldens still further critics who claim U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Bluebill No. 72884 is resting just east of the Twin Cities, preparing for her final flight north to breeding grounds in Canada, North Dakota or northern Minnesota. She is among 16 lesser scaup, or ...

January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...