Sea duck hunting season starts Monday and ends Jan. 28. The previous 107-day season has been much reduced to 60 days to address the decline in sea duck numbers. H Heusmann, MassWildlife’s nationally ...

The Twelve Days of Christmas celebrate the gifts of partridges, doves, French hens, geese and swans. But for the intrepid sea duck hunter, the most exciting birds of Christmas are unequivocally common ...

The duck flock was tight on the water about a quarter-mile away. We were standing on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior along Hwy. 61, a half-dozen miles down the lake from Grand Marais, Minn. You ...

Various pines, firs and spruces add green to the outdoors in cold, gray December, and I welcome them. But I also study the landscape this time of year to search for rare surprises with colorful hues ...

Mark Forbes receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) through their Grants and Contributions envelope.

Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took ...

You never forget your first white-winged scoter, a big black sea duck with a white curve above each eye resembling the Nike Swoosh logo. Especially if your first scoter is bobbing along the Columbia ...

A SHOTGUN BLAST echoes dully down the mountainside, muffled by the snow-covered slope. Something white tumbles from the rocks at the summit and gathers speed like a snowball. My buddy Kali Parmley has ...

Ducks and geese share webbed feet, a branch on the avian family tree, and overlapping habits and habitats. Sometimes you will have opportunities to take both ducks and geese on the same hunt, but more ...

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