The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has estimated continental breeding duck populations at 34.2 million, down 12% from the 2019 estimate of 38.9 million and 4% below the long-term average since 1955, ...

Monday’s news was not what Louisiana duck hunters, nor wild waterfowlers anywhere north to the Dakotas, wanted to hear and read. News from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s annual “Trends on Duck ...

The 2024 Wisconsin spring waterfowl breeding survey showed a continued decline in mallards, the state's most abundant duck species, and a year-over-year drop in total ducks as well as Canada geese.

DULUTH — The number of breeding ducks estimated across the continent hit 33.99 million this spring, up 5% over 2023, but nearly all of the increase happened in the far north and west. That’s the ...

There's good news in duck-breeding country. Total duck breeding numbers in the traditional duck-breeding areas of the U.S. and Canada are at an all-time high of 45.6 million birds, according to the ...

Aug. 18—MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Continental breeding duck populations are down 7% from 2022, Ducks Unlimited said Friday, Aug. 18, in reporting results from the annual spring North American waterfowl survey ...

Duck breeding numbers are down, reports the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) 2024 waterfowl breeding population survey. The resulting data indicate the overall number of breeding ...