The mottled duck is looking for love in all the wrong places. As its breeding grounds disappear along the Louisiana coast, the mottled duck -- the only duck native to the marshes of the American South ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in Florida using data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...

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 ...

FELLSMERE — Some female ducks are wearing whip antennas as state biologists try to make sure the Florida mottled duck doesn’t start declining “until it becomes another Florida panther.” With ...

The mottled duck is listed as a priority bird on the organization’s website. Eric Johnson, director of bird conservation for Audubon Louisiana, explains that birds are priority listed if they are in ...

Mallards -- the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks -- are one of a group of closely related waterfowl species, many of which are far less common. Interbreeding with Mallards can threaten the ...

PALM BAY — It all started so innocently. People just like seeing mallards floating on the water, especially the males with their bright-green, iridescent heads. So people bought and released domestic ...

Despite North American duck populations being at all-time highs for most species, it has been a very disappointing hunting season for most waterfowlers. After a strong start to the 2015-16 season back ...