Spring is in full swing. Birds are nesting and singing on their territories, and the landscape is transforming into a vibrant ...

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In Rajasthan’s Gogunda, villagers conserve pond water for irrigation while reserving some for livestock, wildlife, birds, and ...

Mallard: A big duck with body colors opposite of shoveler: rust-colored shoulders and pale belly. It also has a green head. Green-winged Teal: A small duck whose erratic flight—bodies often gyrate ...

Some duck populations have seen recent increases ... % over 2023 numbers and were 12% over the long-term average. Green-winged teal numbers in 2024 were 20% above 2023 numbers and 38% above ...

The name duck actually comes from the verb duck, as in to duck or dive. The name teal means to reproduce or have a brood. The color teal is named after the green-winged teal, a species in which the ...

The study noted they found Canada geese and wood ducks had lower contaminant burdens than mallards, American green-winged teal and American black ducks. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

The “little” green-winged teal is the smallest of all dabbling ducks in North America, according to the Cornell Lab. This duck is very common across all of the United States, where it spends a ...

This week, we travel to where the ducks and geese are always at hand ... and see how beautiful they are, from cinnamon teal, green wing teal to mallards and pintail. It is amazing to me ...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report estimated 34 million ducks this spring in North America, 5% higher than last year.

“They’re still the second-most abundant duck in North America,” Kraai ... this year’s hunting season is the number of green-winged teal counted in the USFWS’s survey.

The green-winged teal holds the distinction of being the smallest North American dabbling duck. Often weighing less than a pound, the hen greenwing is overall a drab, unassuming, mottled brown.