As hunters and bird watchers track the waterfowl migration each year, many of them look up to the clouds of southbound birds and ponder: How far can ducks migrate in a day? Earlier this month, a ...

Graceful flyers with a distinctive, slender silhouette and a cautious manner, northern pintail ducks are seen in all 50 states. Early breeders and early migrants, they breed as far north as Alaska and ...

Texas duck hunters are staring at a rare kind of good news: more room in the strap for one of the most coveted birds on the marsh. A higher pintail limit changes how you plan a hunt, how you call the ...

Texas hunters heading into the 2025–26 seasons are walking into one of the more consequential rule shakeups in recent memory, even if some of the changes are easy to miss in the fine print. The ...

This year’s waterfowl population survey results will be disappointing to veteran duck hunters, but they shouldn’t be surprising. The total number of ducks dipped just below 34 million breeding ducks, ...

The waterfowl migration is under way throughout Ohio. Dabbling (pond) ducks are the first to arrive, followed by the diving ducks. The dabblers tip over in the water to feed, but the divers go ...

Montana artist Chuck Black won the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp art contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. His tight rendition of a pintail drake on the water of a marsh topped 198 other ...