In the 1999-2000 duck season, duck hunters killed nearly 1.13 million mallards compared to about 311,000 in the 2022-23 duck season. That's a 72% reduction. Luke Naylor, chief of the Arkansas Game and ...

Big, hardy, and adaptable: the mallard duck is found all throughout the Western Hemisphere. Despite its international range, you can call the mallard America’s duck. Of all duck species, the mallard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mallards and pintails (Photo by Danita Delimont / Adobe Stock) Most duck hunters will be happy to hear that breeding ducks ...

ARKANSAS, USA — Duck hunting is one of Arkansas's most treasured traditions, and it has been passed down from generation to generation. Now that we're just days from the start of a new duck season, ...

Mallards are arguably the quintessential ducks, familiar to most of us and found seemingly everywhere. They’re common at freshwater habitats around much of the world, from ponds, lakes, rivers, and ...

Since 1955, the estimated number of mallard ducks wintering in South Carolina has shown a steady drop, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife reports. Many of us would like to reverse this trend. I'm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mallard hen sitting inside a manmade duck nesting house. (Photograph courtesy of Delta Waterfowl) It’s been a good few days for ...

Ducks are mysterious, which is part of their attraction. By species, they can appear wildly different from one another — think florid male wood ducks and more subtly colored male ringnecks. Their ...

The breeding population of ducks in North America was estimated at 32.3 million this spring, down 7% year-over-year and 9% from the long-term mean, according to the 2023 Waterfowl Population Status ...

Michigan State University PhD student Ben Luukkonen takes measurements of a mallard hen held by Shannon Stemaly with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources while Kylie McElrath with Ducks ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's report "Waterfowl Population Status, 2022," released in late August, shows total duck population estimates in spring 2022 declined 12% from the last recorded ...