For the majority of waterfowl hunters across the country ... While the black duck is an east-coast icon, it also ranges westward to the Mississippi flyway. Known as one of the wariest and hardest ...

They nest in the arctic, where their red throats are a vivid identifying characteristic, but the red is usually absent by the time they appear in Ohio on their way to their East Coast wintering ...

This week, a North Carolina-based waterfowl rescue pledged to help re-home the fowl, an act similar to last year’s re-homing of Woodland flocks negatively impacted by the worsening drought.

Wilson, 28, first learned how to call ducks, geese and moose when he was 12 years old, and has since become part of a tight-knit group of hunters known as the East Coast Waterfowl Mafia.