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.

When I saw a pair of ducks in the lake, I thought I knew what they were. “Mallards,” I said to myself reflecting upon childhood memories. When I was young, I often saw mallards swimming in the lake ...

Springtime signals sales at local feed stores, and Easter chicks and ducklings are flying out the door. Well, not really. The baby birds don’t have their flight feathers yet. If you buy one, be aware ...

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 ...

One evening last week, as dusk yielded to the profound darkness that on moonless summer nights still envelops wildlands far enough removed from the civilization’s halo of artificial light, scattered ...

We studied the effects of saline drinking water on the growth and survival of penned mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) ducklings at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Louisiana in 1989. Duckling ...