Look around the Mississippi flyway this fall, and you may see the greater or lesser scaup ("SKOPP"). Scaups are diving ducks that can fully submerge and swim underwater for food.

The best early-season waterfowl hunting depends on scouting and understanding bird movement as the birds’ preferred food ...

Normal is boring when being a rebel brings joy.' Teresa shared this clip of her duck, who has her own flair for freedom.

They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them. Perhaps too many? Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no ...

Animals survive in the wildness of the world and sometimes in its approximation. What comprises wildness? Perhaps a patch of ...

A large private pond in the ultra-rural outskirts of Granville is not a likely spot for a trumpeter swan to land. But this ...

DAVID STEINER FIRST NOTICED THEM at his Suisun Marsh duck club, Joice Island Mallard Farms, a couple of years ago.  “You’d see this animal swimming with ...

If it walks, waddles and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a mallard but might be a redhead, a scaup, a canvasback, a pintail or some similar pattern. Unlike most casual observers who suffer not if ...

Each winter, hunters across the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (or “The Delta” as many of us call it) from Mississippi to eastern Arkansas and northeast Louisiana ask the same question: Where are ...

Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork is to close on Tuesday and Wednesday as a precautionary measure following the suspected outbreak of avian flu. The park is home to hundreds of captive exotic birds as ...

Can this century’s favourite health fad save the financial district? By Lotte Brundle This century’s favourite health fad, cold-water swimming, is now available in Canary Wharf’s Eden Dock. Next to ...