how to identify, and how to hunt and cook mallard duck. Mallards are called “greenheads” for a reason. The drake’s iridescent, dark green head, set off by a white neck collar and bright ...

The species has a black crown and nape that contrast with a white face and breast ... and some northern birds disperse. Found in southeastern Colorado (where it does not breed) early August ...

And since the white-tailed ptarmigan is an “indicator species” for high-elevation ecosystems — the canary in the alpine — its path toward demise could signal the complete collapse of these ecosystems ...