... the water levels in semi-permanent basins and filling many seasonal wetlands. Typically, this scenario promotes a strong breeding effort by ducks, more aggressive re-nesting, and enhanced brood survival. The duck nesting season is at it's peak, so the timing is good!

... celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Waterfowl Population Surveys. Over the years the survey program has evolved, according to Memphis-based Ducks Unlimited, into the "largest and most reliable wildlife survey effort in the world." Still, we've got to wait until the USFWS gets its figures ...

Dogs Get Big Air in Hot Springs at the Ducks Unlimited Big Air National Championship MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 7, 2005 - This weekend, the high-flying excitement of the Ducks Unlimited Big Air Competition will culminate in Hot Springs, Arkansas when ...

Operating at Large Scales: The ducks and DU June 9th, 2005 As June begins, nesting activity is approaching it’s peak across our study areas. Blue-winged teal continue nesting with some re-nests underway. Mallards continue their renesting ...

... made some assumptions concerning the extent of usage (again based on hard data), and concluded that SWDs use had probably killed a large number of ducks, relying on the fact that all studies show a greatly enhanced kill rate for users. The article clearly stated that it constructed its thesis on ...

... was conducted just ahead of the fall rains. Fall fieldwork was a luxury practiced in dry years and only by a few. The low-lying fields, the places ducks like most, were seldom worked in the fall. Waste grain was abundant. Today, a drive across Mississippi, Arkansas and north Louisiana reveals a ...

Mercury a worry for duck hunters By Patty Henetz The Salt Lake Tribune Every year, 20,000 Utah hunters bag about 300,000 ducks. Most of those ducks spend at least some time on the Great Salt Lake gobbling up brine shrimp and other organisms, and probably all of them end up on the dinner ...

... also met justice; unfortunately it was more of the vigilante type. The poster was bragging that he and his buddies were killing hundreds of ducks out of a blind in Rhea County. While other hunters in the area were crying crocodile tears about the poor season, the self-identified college ...

... the last ice age, a mix of substandard soil and hard-to-get-around rocks made the Missouri Coteau next to worthless for farmers but a haven for ducks. Pintails, mallards, gadwalls, blue-winged teal and northern shovelers are species that favor the region's 25,700 square miles. While the potholes ...

Arkansas hunters look inward to solve scarcity of ducks Bob Marshall The Times-Picayune For the last few years, waterfowlers across the South, frustrated at empty skies, have been looking for someone to blame for a string of increasingly poor duck ...

... leg of the survey, Solberg and another observer flew 260 18-mile segments north and east of the Missouri River in the two states, counting all the ducks they could see. A crew on the ground surveyed a subsample of the segments. Solberg said the dry conditions in South Dakota likely attracted fewer ...

... from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conduct low-level flights over the same areas and farther north in the boreal forests, counting ducks and observing wetlands. The resulting index of breeding waterfowl and wetland conditions guides managers across the continent's four waterfowl ...

... Canadian Wildlife Service in Saskatoon, Warner was leading a three-man air/ground crew faced with the task of counting every wetland - and as many ducks and geese as possible - within one-eighth mile on either side of an 18-mile stretch of prairie road. And he had to finish by noon. That would ...

... fine for baiting waterfowl to hunt Associated Press DALLAS - Federal authorities levied a $120,000 fine against an East Texas ranch for hunting ducks over a baited area in violation of federal laws. The Lockridge Ranch in Anderson County is owned by the family trust of Edwin L. Cox Sr., after ...

... Smith, Star Tribune: Minnesota Restrictions on the use of motorized waterfowl decoys in Minnesota will be expanded -- but the controversial fake ducks won't be banned -- under compromise legislation expected to pass the Legislature on Monday. Also under a game and fish bill hammered out Saturday ...