"This is a fantastic water year." Officials celebrate as iconic wetlands see remarkable comeback after years of drought: ...

The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge will be closed to the public from July 14 to August 1 for culvert replacement and paving of entry roads 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 ...

Diving Ducks: Lesser and Greater Scaup Also known as “bluebills” due to their heavy black-tipped powder blue bills/beaks, scaup can be found in all four flyways. There are two subspecies of ...

A drake mallard has set a speed record of 103 mph while migrating across southern Minnesota and southeast North Dakota on April 6, breaking the Cohen Wildlife Ecology Lab’s previous record of 99.3 mph ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 78th-annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of about ...

The ‘Flyways’ event is being hosted in partnership with Ducks Unlimited and will “honor the extraordinary journey of waterfowl across North America and symbolize our own great migration to ...

The number of breeding ducks in North Dakota is above the long-term average, but the population has declined for a second ...

Southward along the Mississippi flyway, which is traveled by the thickest squadrons of ducks and gunned by almost half the nation’s 2,000,000 duck hunters, the shooting was the best in years.

It's estimated that roughly 40% of waterfowl and shorebirds in North America use the Mississippi Flyway.