January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...

The lesser scaup, a medium-sized black and white diving duck, is one of the most abundant and widespread of North American ducks. Its core nesting habitats are in boreal forests and parklands from ...

Wildlife managers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are again finding dead lesser scaup on Lake Winnibigoshish north of Deer River this fall, the agency announced Thursday. The ducks ...

This week’s nature series features the Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis, one of our most common diving ducks that is well known to hunters as the little bluebill or broadbill. This bird is common locally ...

CEDAR FALLS - A previously injured duck is on his way home after members from an area rehabilitation program rescued the wayward bird. Linda Nebbe, a Black Hawk Wildlife Rehabilitation Project ...

Over the last 20 years scaup numbers have declined, and these declines have been greatest in the northern boreal forests of Canada and Alaska where most lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) nest. We studied ...

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Because of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), our local wildlife rehabilitation center, St. Francis Wildlife, temporarily will not accept injured, orphaned or sick wild birds. HPAI has just ...

There are several expressions in the English language based on ducks. Many elected officials will be “lame ducks” after election day. The idiom “sitting duck” refers to the fact that, when ducks molt, ...

A first-of-its-kind outbreak is growing in Florida. Five counties, including Martin, have 38 confirmed cases of an "extremely infectious" new bird flu strain, and wildlife officials suspect there are ...