Among the smallest and most widespread puddle ducks, teal are found all over the world. They are surface and shallow-water feeders that prefer small marshes and ponds, sheet-water, and any other ...

On August 20, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its 2024 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey. Widely recognized as the world’s gold-standard wildlife survey ...

Teal hunters in Texas and the Central Flyway will again see a nine-day season in 2026 after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2025 waterfowl population status report showed another decrease in blue ...

For waterfowl hunters the season in most of the state does not open until November, the High Plains being an exception, but the hunting does not really get good until much later. There are some, ...

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 ...

It’s about this time every year when the folks who live near rice fields and the marshes in our southwestern parishes begin seeing teal. Yes, the most welcome late-summer migrants arrive after ...