Many Brits are fuming about a three-year, taxpayer-funded study -- to the tune of £300,000 (close to $500,000 U.S.) -- that proved nothing more, they say, than that ducks like water.

NEW MADRID, Mo. Water, water everywhere and nobody to pull the plug. That's the way it seemed here on a recent hunt with Christian Curtis of Sikeston, Mo. He and partner Keith Allen run Allen ...

On this North Dakota hunt setting up with a crosswind allowed for great shooting on divers and mallards. Photo by Alex Robinson. We all know that ducks like to land into the wind, but it’s not always ...

Bird people aren't 100-percent sure about this, but the thinking is that by paddling around in those tight circles the ducks are agitating the water — sort of setting up a rotation — that ...

Images of carcasses up close have been blurred because they are too graphic. Not far away, in the bayou water, ducks that were still alive were swimming.

We might have missed one or two, but every duck we hit landed feet up in the water, providing easy retrieves for Phil and attesting to the Paynes' skill at bringing them in close.

Dunahay notes that most diver-duck hunters in Lake Erie set up fairly close to shore, where birds are pressured and wary. Dunahay’s solution is to get away from the crowds. “We usually run anywhere ...

How can ducks swim in ice-cold ... run very close together. As cold blood runs up the leg from the foot ... as effectively for keeping a duck cool when it is in water warmer than ...

In a normal water year, rice farmers typically flood up to 300,000 acres to decompose straw, said Paul Buttner, the rice commission’s manager of environmental affairs. This year, farmers will ...

Just a decade ago, all South Louisiana waterfowl hunters could do was shake their fists at the flights of ducks that would land gracefully in Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge ...