The annual duck banding night at Agassiz National Wildlife refuge is set for 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8. The event is open to people of all ages who'd like to join the fun and "ruffle some feathers." ...

Cayce Guy is waiting with anticipation for the peak of the waterfowl migration at Steve Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area more intently this year than any other. In addition to being ...

But molting ducks can still fly, so this banding season stretches out over several summer weeks. Large wire cages are set into ponds around Middle Creek. Lured into the cage by corn bait, ducks paddle ...

Jim Eckler said there’s “something universally cool about handling and releasing live ducks. “It’s a neat thing for people to just get their hands on wildlife,” said the state wildlife biologist who ...

There were multiple bills in Dyersburg Friday as the governor traveled to Dyer county  for a wildlife project with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and Tennessee Tech.

Simple metal anklets -- bird bands -- are one of the most valuable tools bird biologists have to study migratory bird populations. Wisconsin meets its annual quota of brd bands by using trained ...

John Morgan, the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s southeast wildlife management supervisor, counted one wood duck, one mallard and one snow goose inside a duck trap, Aug. 9, at Middle Creek Wildlife ...

One evening last week, as dusk yielded to the profound darkness that on moonless summer nights still envelops wildlands far enough removed from the civilization’s halo of artificial light, scattered ...

Marquis Dunkleberger spent the last weekday of his summer vacation up to his elbows in squirmy mallards and wood ducks. The Lebanon County fifth-grader had come to Middle Creek Wildlife Management ...