On August 20, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its 2024 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey. Widely recognized as the world’s gold-standard wildlife survey ...

Teal hunters in Texas and the Central Flyway will again see a nine-day season in 2026 after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2025 waterfowl population status report showed another decrease in blue ...

It’s about this time every year when the folks who live near rice fields and the marshes in our southwestern parishes begin seeing teal. Yes, the most welcome late-summer migrants arrive after ...

Laguna de Santa Rosa — First light lifts over the Laguna and the water stirs: pintails skim the shallows, teal chatter in tight circles, and a raft of mallards lifts off like a shaken rug. If you’ve ...

For waterfowl hunters the season in most of the state does not open until November, the High Plains being an exception, but the hunting does not really get good until much later. There are some, ...

The Chiffchaffs and willow warblers have arrived and are bringing their voices to the swelling dawn chorus. The clocks ...