The sound spoke as clearly as the sight that almost immediately followed. It was a low rumble behind us that in a heartbeat became a tearing roar as the birds passed maybe 20 yards overhead, braking ...

BROWNSVILLE — Mississippi River backwaters are icing over, which means the canvasback ducks and tundra swans will soon be out of here. Their presence this year, however, told a story of a recovering ...

BROWNSVILLE — This is the tale of two duck species and one river valley, and how the three are affecting duck hunters. The two duck species are canvasbacks and scaup, also known as bluebills. The ...

Canvasbacks take center stage for hunters, conservationists and stamp collectors with the new Federal Duck Stamp, which went on sale last week. The 2014-2015 stamp features a pair of canvasbacks ...

To the waterfowl enthusiast, the canvasback duck channels a swagger reminiscent of Elvis Presley, and not just because people in the music world called him “the king.” Challenging on the wing, widely ...

MIDLAND - Lorna Poulos got the picture and then the Midland woman got busy trying to bring two canvasbacks to life. All the 56-year-old self-taught artist needed was a little paint and a brush.

Then, flocks of scaup, buffleheads and canvasbacks began scooting back and forth across the water, paralleling the shoreline, out in front of us. We called and called, but most birds ignored us until ...

The southernmost major breeding area of Canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) is located at the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, in the high desert of the western Great Basin. We determined ...