A duck hunter rises to shoot just before sunrise during the 2018 Minnesota duck opener. This year's duck season starts Saturday, with duck numbers said to be good. News Tribune file photo. DULUTH ...

With continental populations of many species of ducks at or near record highs, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has established a 60-day duck season for this fall and increased the ...

Said Cordts: "The bottom line is the wood duck harvest the last three years wasn't much different from the 1970s and '80s.'' Minnesota hunters killed a record 185,000 wood ducks in 1984, when ...

Minnesota’s duck season continues through Tuesday, Nov. 21, in the North Zone. In the Central and South zones, season closes Sunday, Oct. 1, but then reopens Saturday, Oct. 7, and continues ...

After last year’s experimental season, it was determined that identification compliance was very strong among hunters. Harvest during opening weekend of the traditional duck season was about normal.

It's well-established that Minnesota wildlife artists have produced a dynasty in the long-running federal duck stamp competition. Well, this year's victor is from Montana — by way of Minnesota.

Sea birds like long-tailed ducks can be seen on Minnesota's northern waters like Lake Superior in winter. Listen for their distinctive calls, which some describe as a yodel.

It wasn't just pro disc golfers that showed up in Minnesota over the weekend. A yellow duck that was 6 stories tall also ...

Minnesota artist Joseph Hautman won this year's Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with a painting of three tundra swans flying over a wetland. ... Eligible species were the tundra (whistling) swan, ...

The 2025 U.S. State of the Birds Report reveals troubling declines in bird species across almost every habitat and one of the most noteworthy declines this year is among waterfowl populations. Duck ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota’s duck season starts Saturday, Sept. 21, with ample water, decent wild rice and at least some optimism that ducks will cooperate. Conservation officers across the no… ...