The mottled duck is looking for love in all the wrong places. As its breeding grounds disappear along the Louisiana coast, the mottled duck -- the only duck native to the marshes of the American South ...

Mallards -- the familiar ducks of city parks -- are one of a group of closely related species, many of which are far less common. Interbreeding can threaten the genetic distinctiveness of those other ...

The ability to identify ducks, by species and sex, on the wing has always been a crucial waterfowling skill; it allows hunters to pick their most sought-after species, and, with bag limits restricting ...

When I saw a pair of ducks in the lake, I thought I knew what they were. “Mallards,” I said to myself reflecting upon childhood memories. When I was young, I often saw mallards swimming in the lake ...

Mottled ducks have seldom whipped up a lot of passion among Louisiana waterfowlers. They are resident birds, as common in local marshes as egrets and seagulls, and about as exotic. They don't evoke ...

One evening last week, as dusk yielded to the profound darkness that on moonless summer nights still envelops wildlands far enough removed from the civilization’s halo of artificial light, scattered ...