It was a rainy Sunday morning at the beginning of March and I was suffering from cabin fever. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter, but I had been cooped up nonetheless. Saturday had gone by ...

Waterfowl, a general description for ducks, can be challenging to identify in flight. Mastering this ability provides satisfaction and pleasure for bird watchers and is a necessity and requirement for ...

The fourth edition of the Blue Water Nature Series features two mergansers. The common (Mergus merganser) and red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serratus) are winter residents of Lake Huron and the St.

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member of ...

About one month ago, a wildlife photographer captured a mother duck who had her “hands full” with at least 50 ducklings following behind in Lake Bemidji. And that was just the start of this growing ...

For dyed-in-the-wool waterfowlers, the fall bird migrations bring hope for game bags stretched full of colorful, varying duck species. On any given day during duck season, unseen natural events like ...