Upstate New York waterfowl hunters will see a decrease next year in the migratory Canada geese and mallard duck they can shoot - and in the case of Canada geese, in the number of days they can be ...

For the majority of waterfowl hunters across the country, the American black duck is a once-in-a-lifetime bird. A close cousin to the Mallard, the black duck will be forever associated with the ...

Although mallard numbers are still down overall, managers noticed a slight bump in eastern mallard populations during the 2022 waterfowl survey. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its final ...

Lack of good duck hunts lately have me reminiscing about great duck hunts from the past that keep me looking forward to the great hunts of the future. Liftoff One hunt in 1985 was not productive, but ...

Years ago, I was in Arkansas spring snow goose hunting, and it was damn miserable, as snow goose hunting tends to be. After a sufficient amount of suffering, a friend with a private timber hole ...

DEMOPOLIS | With the last bit of fog still clinging to the lake’s surface, the flock turns toward the decoy spread. One saucy greenhead trills his reedy call and loiters a bit below the rest of the ...

Doug Burt of Council Grove, Kan., takes his peregrine falcon, Cowboy, out of its cage before heading out for a duck hunt. Brent Frazee The Kansas City Star COUNCIL GROVE, Kan. When Doug Burt goes duck ...

There was a lull in the action and our guide Mike Stahlman was searching to fill the silence that had crept into our duck blind. As any veteran duck hunter seems to do, he got to bitching about other ...

Arkansas’ duck season opened Saturday, and contemplating the season ahead has led to me reminiscing about a place a friend and I often hunted when we were teenagers. It was just a big mud puddle — a ...

Saturday marked the opening of the waterfowl season in Minnesota. Statistics show that a substantial number of hunters chase waterfowl on only opening weekend. Those who do continue to hunt waterfowl ...