An unusual bird known to find temporary comfort in the gardens and trees of Houston-area neighborhoods is announcing itself with a distinctive call. The black-bellied whistling duck is typically about ...

If you’re reading this, you probably suck at calling ducks. Don’t feel insulted, though, because most people suck at calling ducks. Nash Buckingham once wrote, “A duck call in the hands of a novice is ...

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Calling in a big flock of mallards, working them hard on the edges, and then finishing them over the decoys is one of the most thrilling moments in all of waterfowl hunting. But for beginners, blowing ...

Finding a duck call for your style of calling isn’t easy. We all present air and use air inflection differently when a duck call comes to our lips, which is fine because there’s no one true way to ...

A Mississippi machinist is finding his way into the duck call business with a whistle inspired by those of call-maker Aaron Wingert of Mission, Kansas, and named for the creek where he hunted his ...

Readers have been asking me about some odd-looking ducks roaming their yards. I understand the wonderment. Black-bellied whistling-ducks don’t walk like typical ducks, nor feed like typical ducks.

Calling ducks is an art; it takes practice to get good at it and, frankly, a lot of hunters never do. So Zink, makers of all manner of waterfowl accessories, has come up with a call for guys who can't ...

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) — The quacking is soft at first amid the vineyards that roll for miles in this South African wine-making town. But then the duck handlers whistle and wave their white ...