For about a month, the hen will spend most ... of human actions on the mallard’s biology. Until the early 1900s, for example, this most common species of duck was actually quite uncommon ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): Opening day, opening day shooting hours and the annual youth waterfowl hunt all will be earlier than in the past. Bag ...

and three wood ducks. The hen mallard and wood duck limits increased by one compared with recent years. Daily limits for pintail, scaup and redhead remain at two. Hunters may still take one ...