The view from duck hunter Glen Cummings' floating blind at the north end of Cayuga Lake. All the geese and ducks pictured are decoys. For more than a century, the northern end of Cayuga Lake has been ...

Our wilderness wing of the family acquired four ducklings in an effort to expand their menagerie, which to date consists of a mouser cat built like an NFL linebacker, an extremely energetic black lab ...

The international nonprofit, created in New York in 1937, has dedicated the past 77 years to preserving wetlands and protecting waterfowl. And this weekend, duck enthusiasts from across the state ...

Micky Novak, of Phoenix, holds up a banded mallard duck he shot recently while hunting with Jack Waldron, of Phoenix, (also in picture) and Ron Falkowski, of Bridgeport, on Onondaga Lake. The late ...

This is the season when dozens of ducks — most of them wild, many just passing through — descend on the placid waters of Lake Catherine at Long’s Park. But this spring’s raft of ducks is different.