Has Hot Cropping Ruined Duck Hunting? Here’s What the Data and Biologists Say About How Flooded Corn Affects Waterfowl Migration

The practice of hunting flooded corn for ducks has the waterfowl community divided over whether it's short-stopping the ...
The Advocate

Interactive map allows hunters to track duck migration

Duck migrations are fickle, unpredictable things. During most years of slow hunting, biologists point to warm weather across the continent as the culprit. But this autumn's temperatures have been ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Ducks Unlimited's new migration map offers insights to local waterfowl hunuters

Migration map site considered ‘ultimate resource’ for waterfowl huntersMEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ducks Unlimited’s Waterfowl Migration Map provides in-depth information waterfowl hunters can use to improve ...
The Advocate

Mallard Migration Map tracks mallards, but does little to help local duck hunters

Sometimes science thrills me. Other times it scares me. And then there are times when it frustrates me -- those usually come with duck season. , a close-to-real-time way for waterfowlers to follow the ...
Stuttgart Daily Leader

Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report: January duck numbers likely low; Midwinter survey coming, anecdotal reports not promising

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists were able to survey the waterfowl landscape last week with no significant delays ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Ask the Master Naturalist: Ducks will migrate as days shorten and weather cools

Minnesota has 23 species of resident ducks and geese, and 60% of North America’s migratory birds (not just waterfowl) pass through the state while they follow the Mississippi Flyway. There is no clear ...
Magnolia Reporter

January duck numbers likely low

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists were able to survey the waterfowl landscape last week with no significant delays ...
Stuttgart Daily Leader

Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report: Rain needed on the landscape; Waterfowl hunters still waiting on the deluge that won’t come

The weather forecast calls for some rainfall on Thursday and Friday of this week, but it won’t come close to what is probably ...
MLive

Thousand-duck days have arrived as fall waterbird migration picks up

PARADISE, MI – Ducks are on the move across Michigan with thousands being spotted per day at one observatory in the Upper Peninsula. The first “Thousand Ducks Days” of the fall migration were recorded ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Smith: 50 Ducks shines light on extraordinary waterfowl facts and feats (including a duck that reached 96 mph)

One reached a maximum speed of 96 miles per hour. Another flew at an elevation of 16,800 feet. Others traveled almost entirely after dark. And all of them moved independently, unbeholden to airlines ...