Waterfowl are and have been, at least among those who hunt them, been categorized into either the dabbling duck clan or the diving ducks based for the most part on how they feed. Dabbling ducks obtain ...

As a kid growing up in landlocked Worthington, Ohio, sea ducks were the stuff of pipe dreams. Smitten with birds since about the age of 8, but with limited mobility in those earlier years, I read ...

THIS is how eider ducks get their lunch. The common eider (Somateria mollissima) flocks to the Norwegian coast in winter to surf the waves and feed in the protected bays and fjords. Pål Hermansen has ...

Several thousands birds have been found dead or blackened since an oil spill three weeks ago, but no species has been hit harder than the surf scoter, a migratory sea duck that had already seen a ...