Blue-wing teal, by contrast, swim away and stay hidden, making them harder to count. 2. Wood duck. ... • Wood duck hens may lay a dozen or so eggs.

The 2017 season ended with harvests of 160,000 mallards, 116,000 wood ducks, 80,000 ringnecks and 78,000 blue-winged teal. In many years, bluewings outnumber ringnecks. Froehlich said bluewings ...

Blue-winged breeding duck numbers are down a disappointing 22 percent from last year, with a current population estimate of 6.689 million. While diminished from 2015's total (8.547 million), that ...

In North America, there are 64 species of ducks. None can get from Point A to Point B faster than the blue-winged teal. Just ask any duck hunter who blinked when a flock of blue-wings erupted ...

A light blue patch adorns the forewing just above a greenish patch of feathers called a speculum. Females – or hens – are brown and also sport a blue wing patch, but lack the green speculum below.

After all, none of the blue-winged teal they drop during the 16-day, teal-only season that opens Sept. 15 will wear the colorful plumage — the slate-blue head with the white crescent, spotted ...

It was a good day for spotting dabbling ducks at the Exeter Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 31.Eighteen blue-winged teal, a green-winged teal, an American golden-plover, a pectoral sandpiper ...

The blue-winged teal prefers to live in small flocks, often only in groups of four to five pairs. It is a monogamous species, and during the breeding season, females will construct a simplistic ...

“Teal season is essentially six bonus hunting days for waterfowl hunters outside of the regular duck season where you can shoot teal only,” Carr says, “so we’re talking about blue wing ...

We filled our wood duck limits plus one blue-winged teal. Add the two mallards and our total was nine ducks, three shy of our combined daily limit of 12. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW ...

It was a good day for spotting dabbling ducks at the Exeter Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 31.Eighteen blue-winged teal, a green-winged teal, an American golden-plover, a pectoral sandpiper ...