To the waterfowl enthusiast, the canvasback duck channels a swagger reminiscent of Elvis Presley, and not just because people in the music world called him “the king.” Challenging on the wing, widely ...

Sometimes significant travel is required to find good hunting or fishing. For ring-necked pheasants, get ready for a long drive to the Dakotas; for a reliable place to hunt ruffed grouse, drive to ...

If it walks, waddles and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a mallard but might be a redhead, a scaup, a canvasback, a pintail or some similar pattern. Unlike most casual observers who suffer not if ...

First, I heard the hum of mud motors, then I saw the flood lights burning through the marsh. I had paddled my duck hunting kayak into a backwater spot by moonlight and then spent the last 20 minutes ...

Last week on the Outdoor Life Podcast I talked to executive editor Natalie Krebs about the hottest debate in waterfowl hunting: whether the prevalence of flooded corn is shortstopping the migration in ...

Flocks arrived by the dozens in the dark before sunrise. Some traveled in groups. Others arrived solo. They all wanted a spot in the wetlands but had to wait for the Missouri Department of ...