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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — With how many species of this familiar waterfowl live in or migrate through the state, you could say Virginia is for duck lovers. From diving ducks to sea ducks to dabbling ...

As the expression goes, "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it probably is a duck." More common throughout the year in southeast Tennessee, the dabbler duck feeds by skimming the ...

This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light. Buffleheads ...

Wild ducks are arriving from breeding grounds in the prairie potholes of the Great Plains to spend the winter on our ponds, lakes and marshes. Lucky for them, ours aren't blanketed in ice during ...

Ducks commonly capture the public attention when a female chooses a nest site next to a fast-food drive-through window, when an outsized gathering of them causes a contamination of a public park or ...