The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is implanting radio transmitters in 100 ring-necked ducks in the Bemidji area in an effort to learn more about the birds' survival and habitat use. Also ...

The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting. "It's nothing like it used to be," Larson said this past week with Minnesota's duck season ...

Sometimes significant travel is required to find good hunting or fishing. For ring-necked pheasants, get ready for a long drive to the Dakotas; for a reliable place to hunt ruffed grouse, drive to ...

Here they come, making another swing over your decoys. Smaller ducks. Fast wing-beats. Divers, for sure, flying in a tight knot. If you hunt northern Minnesota, you know what they're likely to be.

Perhaps a more accurate name for Ring-necked Ducks would have been Ring-billed Ducks. The ring on the neck does exist, but it is tough to see. Biologists in the 1800s noticed it when using dead ...

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 ...