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 ...

The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting. "It's nothing like it used to be," Larson said this past week with Minnesota's duck season ...

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 ...

The service has countered that its computer models indicate the scaup harvest should be reduced, given the smaller size of its population. Whether the population model used to arrive at this belief is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lesser and greater scaup are better known as bluebills. As the nickname implies, both subspecies have blue bills, and the two birds are very difficult to differentiate. Each is part of the diving ...

The Greater Scaup Aythya Marila has made an appearance at Gajoldoba for the first time in recent years. The birds were seen on Sunday during the annual waterfowl census at the Gajoldoba barrage and ...