Biologists with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are currently predicting a favorable season for ducks and waterfowl ...

I want to sing the praises of an intense kind of birding experience: having a patch. Your “patch,” in birding parlance, is a ...

The Canada goose is not one of my favorite birds. The resident population has exploded and they seem to be everywhere. I’m not sure they’ve taken over another bird’s niche so in that respect they, ...

We just finished another successful summer at the field stations, where students worked hard on projects mentored by our ...

When George Shiras published his wildlife photographs in National Geographic it transformed the medium with his novel use of ...

The total breeding ducks estimate was 34 million, unchanged from 2024, but 4% below long-term averages since 1955.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has completed its 2025 waterfowl breeding population survey. The survey shows an increase in both mallard and total duck species ...

Every day for the past few months, I've seen a pair of mallard ducks wandering around our work parking lot. I don't know much about ducks, but I'm assuming that somewhere around here, they must have a ...

Not all elementary schools have mascots, but Jefferson Elementary in Goshen, Indiana, does. The official school mascot is a tiger, but for second-graders, it is a mama duck. A female Mallard builds ...

For the second year in a row, a mother duck is making her nest in a St. Anthony Village shopping center. A worker at a nearby store has created a "Mallard Maternity Ward" for the mother duck. A local ...