For one of the first times at a large scale, University of Delaware researchers are studying breeding black duck populations in coastal North Carolina to determine nesting site preference and hatching ...

HORICON - About 6 a.m. last Saturday the preparations were complete. The blinds had been made, the decoys had been set and the lights had been turned off. We retired to our newly-decorated, temporary ...

The mottled duck is looking for love in all the wrong places. As its breeding grounds disappear along the Louisiana coast, the mottled duck -- the only duck native to the marshes of the American South ...

HORICON - In the distance a crescent moon climbed into the purple sky as orange light flooded over the horizon. Closer to our east two dozen decoys floated placidly in a 60-yard-wide channel of water ...

TIN TOWN, MANITOBA - We set out under the purple cloak of predawn and paddled our canoe about three miles into Delta Marsh, a vast wetland near Tin Town, Manitoba. Jim Henning of Mequon, Wis., was in ...

A falcated duck visits Potter Marsh along the Seward Highway in Anchorage on Saturday May 4, 2019. (Photo by Bob Hallinen) Tasha DiMarzio couldn’t believe it was actually there. She had been sure the ...