Over the last 20 years scaup numbers have declined, and these declines have been greatest in the northern boreal forests of Canada and Alaska where most lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) nest. We studied ...

Identifying environmental metrics specific to lesser scaup (Aythya affînis; scaup) spring migration chronology may help inform development of conservation, management and population monitoring. Our ...

Wildlife managers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are again finding dead lesser scaup on Lake Winnibigoshish north of Deer River this fall, the agency announced Thursday. The ducks ...

January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...

The lesser scaup, a medium-sized black and white diving duck, is one of the most abundant and widespread of North American ducks. Its core nesting habitats are in boreal forests and parklands from ...

Bluebill No. 72884 is resting just east of the Twin Cities, preparing for her final flight north to breeding grounds in Canada, North Dakota or northern Minnesota. She is among 16 lesser scaup, or ...

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 ...

They're out there right now off the shores of San Francisco Bay, sometimes rafting up in large groups to resist the wind, sometimes diving beneath the gray water to feed: big, handsome ducks with ...

As the spring thaw begins to open bodies of water, ducks begin to migrate through Teller County. Although Teller is rather dry, rivers and lakes do attract some diving ducks that like deeper water.

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 ...

In the 1990s, when snow and rain returned to the prairies and parklands after a long period of drought, and when conservation programs expanded upland cover in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region, most ...