Cooking, cleaning, shepherding his two young sons to and from school — oh, and talking to mallards, wigeon, pintail and snow geese — is all in a day’s work for Shane Rossen, a 42-year-old Mill Creek ...

Of the 1.2 million ducks and geese at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, people from across America have been fixated for a month over a single one: a falcated duck, a nomadic teal from ...

Laguna de Santa Rosa — First light lifts over the Laguna and the water stirs: pintails skim the shallows, teal chatter in tight circles, and a raft of mallards lifts off like a shaken rug. If you’ve ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The birds know it’s been a frigid February because the usual early spring spectacle of thousands of ducks and geese along the Toppenish Creek bottomlands has been delayed. Most ponds ...

This year’s waterfowl population survey results will be disappointing to veteran duck hunters, but they shouldn’t be surprising. The total number of ducks dipped just below 34 million breeding ducks, ...

A wetland nature reserve has temporarily closed after a possible case of avian influenza. Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Burscough, Lancashire, said it related to one of the collection birds. The ...

The feeding behaviour of European Wigeon, Teal, Mallard and Pintail was studied in May, June and August on a shallow lake in northern Sweden at 66°N. Duck behaviour was found to be related to the time ...

March is the time for the ducks and geese to move north along the Connecticut River. By then, there usually have been enough days of warming winds and bright sunlight to thaw the ice on the river and ...

Weather across much of Texas this Halloween - rain ahead of a substantial cool front bringing north wind and dropping temperatures into the 40s as far south as the coastal prairies by the weekend - ...