To the waterfowl enthusiast, the canvasback duck channels a swagger reminiscent of Elvis Presley, and not just because people in the music world called him “the king.” Challenging on the wing, widely ...

Sometimes significant travel is required to find good hunting or fishing. For ring-necked pheasants, get ready for a long drive to the Dakotas; for a reliable place to hunt ruffed grouse, drive to ...

The canvasback is member of the genus, Aythya, which is comprised of a dozen species of diving ducks. The other members of the genus in North America include greater scaup, lesser scaup, redhead and ...

Grab your binoculars and take a 'quack' at correctly identifying two commonly confused ducks: the redhead vs canvasback.

If it walks, waddles and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a mallard but might be a redhead, a scaup, a canvasback, a pintail or some similar pattern. Unlike most casual observers who suffer not if ...

"More plenty of swans, cranes, geese, ducks and mallards, and divers sorts of fowls none would desire," wrote Captain John Smith in his 1608 account of Virginia called "A True Relation." But that's ...

In the wildlife profession, the word "balance" is often associated with a challenge to meet the needs of many. Establishing a waterfowl season framework to meet the expectations of thousands of ...

It was just before dawn, and a cold fog hung over the marshes below Klamath Falls, Ore. Two men squatted in a crude blind. At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks ...

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 ...

Sometimes, significant travel is required to find good hunting or fishing. For ring-necked pheasants, get ready for a long drive to the Dakotas; for a reliable place to hunt ruffed grouse, drive to ...