There are currently confirmed cases in Martin, Brevard, Volusia, Charlotte and Palm Beach counties There's a "low risk" the bird flu can spread to humans Lesser scaup ducks appear to be the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teal and doves typically dominate discussion when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Regulations Committee (SRC) meets each June to fashion annual frameworks for hunting early-season migratory game ...

They're out there right now off the shores of San Francisco Bay, sometimes rafting up in large groups to resist the wind, sometimes diving beneath the gray water to feed: big, handsome ducks with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Duck hunters were stunned in July when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a four-per-day limit for scaup. Don’t know that species? Hunters across south Louisiana call them “dos gris,” and ...