From Lake Okeechobee to the golf courses of west Boca Raton, urban mallard ducks are crossbreeding with wild mottled ducks. That amorous coupling of city duck with backwoods duck is making state ...

Minnesota’s breeding mallard numbers increased from last year, but the total duck population estimate declined by about 6 percent, according to results of the annual May waterfowl survey released by ...

Mating and reproduction is a prolonged process for mallard ducks. Males sport their mating feathers — most obviously the bright green head and neck feathers — starting in fall and all winter long.

Looking for an STD-free mate? Check the color of their bill (if you're a mallard duck, that is). Researchers have found that the brighter a mallard's bill, the more effective their sperm is at killing ...

The breeding population of ducks in North America was estimated at 32.3 million this spring, down 7% year-over-year and 9% from the long-term mean, according to the 2023 Waterfowl Population Status ...

Although the American black duck (Anas rubripes) has been designated a priority species in eastern North America, no systematic survey has been done in the agricultural lowlands of southern Québec, ...

The results the annual May breeding waterfowl survey conducted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) show Minnesota’ s breeding mallard and blue-winged teal numbers are higher than ...