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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CEDAR FALLS - A previously injured duck is on his way home after members from an area rehabilitation program rescued the wayward bird. Linda Nebbe, a Black Hawk Wildlife Rehabilitation Project ...

A lesser scaup carrying an implanted satellite transmitter was spending time in Superior's Allouez Bay last week. The duck is one of 16 in a nationwide study that aims to understand what's causing the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...