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 ...

CEDAR FALLS - A previously injured duck is on his way home after members from an area rehabilitation program rescued the wayward bird. Linda Nebbe, a Black Hawk Wildlife Rehabilitation Project ...

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 number of lesser scaup ducks is dwindling, and it could be an invasive species that does them in. Invasive snails and parasites are attacking these and other ducks on the Upper Mississippi. U.S.

January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...

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 ...

An injured duck was rescued on the pedestrian path of the Mid-Hudson Bridge last week. The New York State Bridge Authority says that Pickles, a lesser scaup duck, was clinging to life after being ...

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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 ...