It’s mid-August and hot, but already arriving in Georgia’s wetlands are blue-winged teals, well in advance of the 20 or so other duck species that will migrate into Georgia over the next few months.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2024 waterfowl population status report released Tuesday indicates another significant drop in numbers for blue-winged teal, an important species for Texas hunters ...

The estimated spring tally of 64,000 blue-winged teal is the lowest blue-winged teal population in Minnesota since the survey started in 1968, the DNR said. Breeding numbers of blue-winged teal in ...

A male blue-winged teal drifts on the water’s surface. Watch for these small migratory ducks this week as they head south for their wintering grounds as far away as Argentina. "; This week on Discover ...

Ducks are some of the earliest returning migrants to Colorado as ice begins to melt and open water emerges. In Teller County, larger rivers like the South Platte are the first to thaw, aided by the ...

The stately greenhead rules with the duck hunting masses, but the blue-winged teal is the early bird favorite with Texas’ waterfowl crowd. Teal are always the first ducks to hightail it out of their ...