This article was originally featured in Outdoor Life. As hunters and bird watchers track the waterfowl migration each year, many of them look up to the clouds of southbound birds and ponder: How far ...

Graceful flyers with a distinctive, slender silhouette and a cautious manner, northern pintail ducks are seen in all 50 states. Early breeders and early migrants, they breed as far north as Alaska and ...

After a severe drought gripped the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada in the 1980s, populations of almost all dabbling duck species that breed there have recovered. But not northern ...