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 ...

"More plenty of swans, cranes, geese, ducks and mallards, and divers sorts of fowls none would desire," wrote Captain John Smith in his 1608 account of Virginia called "A True Relation." But that's ...

The canvasback is member of the genus, Aythya, which is comprised of a dozen species of diving ducks. The other members of the genus in North America include greater scaup, lesser scaup, redhead and ...

TIN TOWN, MANITOBA - We set out under the purple cloak of predawn and paddled our canoe about three miles into Delta Marsh, a vast wetland near Tin Town, Manitoba. Jim Henning of Mequon, Wis., was in ...

It was just before dawn, and a cold fog hung over the marshes below Klamath Falls, Ore. Two men squatted in a crude blind. At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks ...

Texas waterfowl hunters will see 2001-02 duck and goose seasons and bag limits mirroring those of this past year, with one unusual difference. The regular duck season in the eastern two-thirds of ...

A male canvasback is unmistakably regal with a sloping profile that instantly distinguishes it from other ducks. Males, or drakes, have chestnut-red heads, white bodies, black breasts and rears and ...