The lesser scaup, a medium-sized black and white diving duck, is one of the most abundant and widespread of North American ducks. Its core nesting habitats are in boreal forests and parklands from ...

Found especially on inland waters, Lesser Scaup are one of North America’s most abundant, widespread diving ducks. Often, you will see them with Canvasbacks and Redheads. Energetic Lesser Scaup feed, ...

A recent acute decline in two closely related Manitoba duck species remains unexplained. The lesser and greater scaup are widely distributed diving ducks whose steep continent-wide population losses ...

The scaup, it could be said, are difficult ducks to deal with. Two species occur in North America, but you can’t tell by looking. Well, you can, but you have to know what you’re looking for, and you ...

Bird-watchers from the south west have headed to a Cornish duck pond in the hope of spotting a rare duck. The lesser scaup is a regular visitor to Hawaii but one has turned up on a boating lake in ...

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 ...

As the spring thaw begins to open bodies of water, ducks begin to migrate through Teller County. Although Teller is rather dry, rivers and lakes do attract some diving ducks that like deeper water.

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 ...