It’s mid-August and hot, but already arriving in Georgia’s wetlands are blue-winged teals, well in advance of the 20 or so other duck species that will migrate into Georgia over the next few months.

Ducks are some of the earliest returning migrants to Colorado as ice begins to melt and open water emerges. In Teller County, larger rivers like the South Platte are the first to thaw, aided by the ...

Discover Nature this week as a swift-flying, migratory duck begins returning to Missouri from the north. The blue-winged teal (Anas discors) breeds across North America, spending its summers as far ...

In most areas where trout live, four orders of aquatic insects comprise a majority of the food the fish eat. The orders are mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), caddis flies (Trichoptera ...

Teal hunters in Texas and the Central Flyway will again see a nine-day season in 2026 after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2025 waterfowl population status report showed another decrease in blue ...

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Earlier in May, several of us took off for the Frying Pan River after the memorial gathering for John Gierach in Lyons. None of us had made inquiries into whether the blue-winged olive hatch was on, ...

A few weeks ago, I took advantage of a special fall program offered by the Liberty Hall Historic Site in Frankfort. The program offered visitors the chance to participate in a guided tour of Liberty ...

A male blue-winged teal drifts on the water’s surface. Watch for these small migratory ducks this week as they head south for their wintering grounds as far away as Argentina. "; This week on Discover ...