There's good news in duck-breeding country. Total duck breeding numbers in the traditional duck-breeding areas of the U.S. and Canada are at an all-time high of 45.6 million birds, according to the ...

Duck breeding numbers are down, reports the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) 2024 waterfowl breeding population survey. The resulting data indicate the overall number of breeding ...

Monday’s news was not what Louisiana duck hunters, nor wild waterfowlers anywhere north to the Dakotas, wanted to hear and read. News from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s annual “Trends on Duck ...

There's good news in duck-breeding country. Total duck-breeding numbers in the traditional duck breeding areas of the U.S. and Canada are at an all-time high of 45.6 million birds, according to the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its report on the 2023 Waterfowl Population Status in mid-August. The numbers of ducks slid from the 2022 estimate, with the drop attributed to extremely ...

For one of the first times at a large scale, University of Delaware researchers are studying breeding black duck populations in coastal North Carolina to determine nesting site preference and hatching ...

North Dakota's wet spots - from the biggest lakes to wetlands holding only trace amounts of water - were down this spring, but you wouldn't know it by the number of ducks on the pond. According to the ...

Delta Waterfowl is a non-profit conservation organization focused on producing ducks and securing the future of waterfowl hunting. They pursue these initiatives through intensive management programs ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Continental breeding duck populations are down 7% from 2022, Ducks Unlimited said Friday, Aug. 18, in reporting results from the annual spring North American waterfowl survey ...

Last year waterfowlers across the country commiserated about one of their worst duck seasons ever. The ducks, they said, just never showed up. Or when birds did come through their areas, they were in ...

On one side was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a lumbering bureaucracy out to curb the spread of a pesky fowl; on the other, thousands of duck lovers, breeders and pet owners who feared for their ...