The decision Thursday to significantly restrict the scaup (bluebill) harvest by Mississippi Flyway duck hunters this fall emboldens still further critics who claim U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources sent its waterfowl regulations to the printer this week but is still protesting restrictive limits imposed on scaup and canvasbacks by the U.S. Fish and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over the last 20 years scaup numbers have declined, and these declines have been greatest in the northern boreal forests of Canada and Alaska where most lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) nest. We studied ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – An estimated 3,000 scaup and several hundred coot were found dead on Minnesota’s lake Winnibigosh. Waterfowl hunters and officials from the Minnesota DNR first spotted the dead and ...
The hottest debate in the waterfowl world is a good reminder that numbers do lie. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is getting dragged through the mud by a healthy number of waterfowl biologists over ...
A lesser scaup carrying an implanted satellite transmitter was spending time in Superior's Allouez Bay last week. The duck is one of 16 in a nationwide study that aims to understand what's causing the ...
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.
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