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 ...

There are currently confirmed cases in Martin, Brevard, Volusia, Charlotte and Palm Beach counties There's a "low risk" the bird flu can spread to humans Lesser scaup ducks appear to be the most ...

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 ...

The number of lesser scaup ducks is dwindling, and it could be an invasive species that does them in. Invasive snails and parasites are attacking these and other ducks on the Upper Mississippi. U.S.

How best to help a duck population experiencing a mysterious decline is behind the debate over hunting regulations governing scaup, diving ducks that breed primarily in the boreal forest of Canada ...

Duck hunters were stunned in July when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a four-per-day limit for scaup. Don’t know that species? Hunters across south Louisiana call them “dos gris,” and ...

Consider: At one time, the number of scaup — bluebills — killed by Minnesota waterfowlers in Otter Tail County alone exceeded the total number of ducks felled during an entire season in the Atlantic ...