This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light. Buffleheads ...

ON CASS LAKE -- The temperature hovers around 20. A northwest wind drives snow across a steel sky. And Gene Olson of Coleraine is right where he wants to be -- chest-deep in 35-degree water. Olson is ...

Migratory waterfowl are impacted by weather changes like this. Shallow wetlands are the first bodies of water to freeze. One ...

Waterfowl are and have been, at least among those who hunt them, been categorized into either the dabbling duck clan or the diving ducks based for the most part on how they feed . Dabbling ducks ...

The spring passage of waterfowl continued apace early in the week. Indeed, it may have reached its peak, as thousands of birds of a score – at least – of species moved into and beyond the Red River ...

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 ...

OCONTO - The rising sun lit the eastern horizon with a reddish-orange glow, that much was clear. But it took a minute for my brain to come to terms with a couple other things my eyes were seeing over ...

"The Buffleheads are being difficult!" David Barrett, who runs the Manhattan Bird Alert Twitter, told me earlier this week as he tried to capture the newly arrived ducks in Central Park. They were ...