The author hunted waterfowl for 46 years before realizing he was close to getting all 41 species on "the list." His most ...

Happy Thursday, Richmond! It's Dec. 4, 2025. In case you missed it, a fire broke out in a Steveston apartment building on Tuesday evening, displacing more than 20 residents. Meanwhile, Richmond Centre ...

I awoke the morning of Nov. 10 to our first real taste of winter. A blanket of snow covered the ground, and temperatures were in the mid-20s. Sayonara to the last of the wildflowers, butterflies and ...

REFUGE/DDWS Brothers Jim, Bob and Joe Hautman. As the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel celebrates the latest Federal Duck Stamp Contest win for James “Jim” Hautman — the only ...

The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) reported that Jim Hautman was awarded first place for the seventh time at the Federal Duck Stamp (FDS) Contest on Sept. 18-19 at the ...

After two wonderful months in Montana, I am now back in the Quad-Cities and back in my office. It is good to be back home again. As regular readers of the columns I write know, I enjoy doing wildlife ...

This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light. Buffleheads ...

When I was a kid in Boy Scouts working on my 21 merit badges required to make Eagle Scout, bird study was the toughest. I studied birds in books. I went to classes at the Buffalo Museum of Science, ...

Saco artist Rebekah Lowell’s success is a story of determination and resilience. Lowell recently won the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 2025 Maine Migratory Waterfowl Stamp contest, ...

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is set to begin selling the 2012 edition of the state migratory waterfowl conservation stamp. The stamp features the work of Powhatan County artist ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Ducks can be on a lake by the hundreds one day, then gone the next. That's the case at Lake Fayetteville, where the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society hosts a field trip each winter to ...