Three years ago, biologists dressed all in black crept around the wetlands of a small desert island in the middle of the night. Their goal: to capture 20 Laysan Ducks. Those snatched ducks became ...

Ducks and geese share webbed feet, a branch on the avian family tree, and overlapping habits and habitats. Sometimes you will have opportunities to take both ducks and geese on the same hunt, but more ...

Evolutionary cousins of chickens and ducks roamed the earth with dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago, according to a new study that runs counter to a key assumption about when birds got their ...

As a new duck hunter, you have a long list of tasks ahead before your first opening day, particularly if you don’t have a seasoned hunter to guide you through the process of learning to duck hunt. To ...

Ripper was a hand-reared male Australian musk duck (Biziura lobata), who mimicked human utterances and other sounds that he learned from his environment. (Credit: Glenn Pure (C) 2018, with kind ...