Waterfowl Field Guide
Know your birds — identification, behavior, and the decoy and calling setups that work for every species you'll chase.
Mallard
The benchmark puddle duck — adaptable, vocal, and everywhere.
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Wood Duck
Timber jewel — early risers that scream through the trees at dawn.
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Canada Goose
Big, wary, and worth the effort — a field-hunting staple.
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Green-winged Teal
Tiny rockets — the fastest, twitchiest ducks in the marsh.
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Lesser Scaup (Bluebill)
Big-water divers that raft up and bomb long lines by the hundreds.
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Northern Pintail
The greyhound of the sky — long, elegant, and famously wary.
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Gadwall
The 'gray duck' — plain-looking, ultra-common, and a decoy sucker.
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American Wigeon
The 'baldpate' — whistling grazers that pirate their food.
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Blue-winged Teal
The first birds of fall — here and gone before the season warms up.
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Canvasback
The king of ducks — big, fast, and the classic big-water trophy.
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Redhead
Rafting divers that pour into big-water spreads in a hurry.
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Bufflehead
Butterballs — tiny, fast divers that buzz the spread all day.
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Snow Goose
White tornadoes — massive, wary flocks that test every hunter.
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