The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting. "It's nothing like it used to be," Larson said this past week with Minnesota's duck season ...

The decision Thursday to significantly restrict the scaup (bluebill) harvest by Mississippi Flyway duck hunters this fall emboldens still further critics who claim U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Over the decades, I have made many trips to the New River. While it is confusing to folks who are more familiar with the mountain region of the state rather than the southeast coast, our destination ...

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 ...

This week’s nature series features the Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis, one of our most common diving ducks that is well known to hunters as the little bluebill or broadbill. This bird is common locally ...

DEER RIVER, Minn. — As many as 3,000 bluebill ducks have died along the western shore of Lake Winnibigoshish in northern Minnesota, and wildlife biologists say they were likely poisoned by a parasite ...

Near freezing temperature, blustery wind, ice on the edge of the lake and humans huddled in a blind next to a shivering retriever are a bluebill hunter's dream. For some the scenario would more ...