Found especially on inland waters, Lesser Scaup are one of North America’s most abundant, widespread diving ducks. Often, you will see them with Canvasbacks and Redheads. Energetic Lesser Scaup feed, ...

The scaup, it could be said, are difficult ducks to deal with. Two species occur in North America, but you can’t tell by looking. Well, you can, but you have to know what you’re looking for, and you ...

The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting. "It's nothing like it used to be," Larson said this past week with Minnesota's duck season ...

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 ...

Waterfowl hunters know that some year’s seasons are better than others. Waterfowl populations rise and fall through the years, mostly based on water and habitat quality on the breeding grounds. With ...

The storied tradition of hunting scaup, or bluebills, in Minnesota is being threatened by the very agency charged with managing the birds — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That is one of the ...