ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Graduation night for preschool students at First Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Minn., Monday, May 24, had a special visitor. One hen mallard sat still as a statue on a nest, ...

The hens aren’t coming home to roost, and something’s going to have to change. Beginning in Minnesota. The hens in this case are mallards, specifically adult hen mallards, and their absence on the ...

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 ...

It’s been a good few days for waterfowlers. Not only are northern birds starting to work their way down the continental flyways, but today President Biden signed into law the Duck Stamp Modernization ...

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 ...

It's a conservation partnership spanning nearly one thousand miles, just in time for spring. Over the next few months, hundreds of mallard ducks in Northeast Wisconsin will have a new, safer place to ...

This wild mallard hen was sitting on thin ice. The pool she sat on was very shallow, with bits of vegetation extending above the ice. Although wild ducks are able to fly at night, this hen stayed put ...

Last year waterfowlers across the country commiserated about one of their worst duck seasons ever. The ducks, they said, just never showed up. Or when birds did come through their areas, they were in ...

If you spend any time at City Dock in Annapolis, you know the true owners of the waterfront spot are the birds. Especially ducks. Specifically mallards. “The male mallard, or drake, is so commonly ...