LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- This week we'll be talking about teal. We have three kinds in Arkansas, the Blue-winged Teal and the Green-winged Teal, and the exceptionally rare (in Arkansas) Cinnamon ...

For waterfowling enthusiasts, duck bands are among the most cherished mementos of the hunt. Fewer than one out of a thousand ducks wear the bands, so they are rare treasures, indeed. They are to the ...

For waterfowling enthusiasts, duck bands are among the most cherished mementos of the hunt. Fewer than one out of a thousand ducks wear the bands, so they are rare treasures, indeed. They are to 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 ...

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.

Results from 25 years of duck-band returns and, more recently, mourning doves, have shed light on where migratory birds banded in the Devils Lake region end up when they fly south. Mark Fisher, ...

Arkansas duck hunters are getting a crack at some early birds now that teal season is open. The season started Sept. 15 and runs through Saturday. Teal, especially blue-winged teal, are the first ...

Average wt. .8-1.1 lb. (.36-.5 kg); Average length (bill to tail) 14"-16" (35.6-40.6 cm); Wing span 24"-26" (61-66 cm). The Blue-winged Teal is a small, dabbling duck. It flies very fast in small ...

Female and immature cinnamon teal are notoriously difficult to distinguish from blue-winged teal, says the All about Birds webpage produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Cinnamon teal are always ...

Something very close to the once-believed phenomenon of spontaneous generation occurs during late August and early September on Texas' coastal prairie. Take a fairly recently harvested rice field.

The estimated spring tally of 64,000 blue-winged teal is the lowest blue-winged teal population in Minnesota since the survey started in 1968, the DNR said. Breeding numbers of blue-winged teal in ...

What: Among the smallest of the common North American ducks. Blue-winged teal average about 16-inches long for a male, 14 inches for a female. The male weighs about 1 pound; the female about 20 ...