Some birds I would write about only in the spring or summer, because that’s the only time they are here. Some species winter here and breed elsewhere. The common merganser is one of those North Idaho ...

Another Arkansas duck season began Saturday. As is always the case on opening weekend, the airport at Stuttgart is crowded with private jets as people from across the country visit the Grand Prairie, ...

Arkansas’ duck season opened Saturday, and contemplating the season ahead has led to me reminiscing about a place a friend and I often hunted when we were teenagers. It was just a big mud puddle — a ...

9:27… I JUMPED into the bay to retrieve the harlequin. The water appeared calm—until I started tracking the speed at which the current was ferrying my bird. I ...

That's author Greg Hoch writing about wood ducks, adding his opinion to many others. In his new book "With Wings Extended" Hoch says he has found the words "most beautiful" in the first sentence of at ...

Duck hunting in America has a complicated history. The market gunning era of the late 1800s depleted waterfowl populations to dangerous numbers. And over the first half of the 20th century, it was ...

If you walk through Henry Gray Hurricane Lake Wildlife Management Area, the towering hardwood stands might look like a beautiful place to hunt. But once you know what to look for, you can see the ...

Norwegians Ivar Risheim, Age Stenumgard and Jon and Kjersti Bjorstad were recent visitors to northeast South Dakota, and the highlight of their trip was hunting in a perfect duck slough. Although the ...

Waterfowl hunting hasn’t gone away, though numbers have slipped. Some 15,000 Ohioans, virtually all of them enthusiasts, aim at ducks and geese. Waterfowl make stern demands, including an embrace of ...

The city of Stuttgart is welcoming people from around the world this weekend as it celebrates the 90th annual World ...