Banding ducks and geese provides important information on migration corridors, survival rates, harvest rates, and age ratios.

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

Knowing where, when and for how long mallard ducks – natural carriers of avian influenza – stop and rest as they migrate can ...

The birds fly in bunches, clouds of bobbing feathers and beaks, flocks shaping and shifting as they glide into the flats.

The survey covered 212 wintering sites across 21 provincial-level regions, revealing that 83.6 percent of the ducks cluster in ... such as the National Bird Migration Corridor Protection Action ...

Hundreds of species need wetlands to breed, forage and rest. When wetlands are destroyed, birds are usually the first to noticeably die off.

Hundreds of thousands of waterfowl — including 80% of Canada geese that migrate along the Mississippi Flyway — use the ... wetlands as habitat during migration, and they also host the largest ...

Researchers are celebrating after finding two record-breaking Oystercatchers within just one month of each other on England’s ...

(Bird calls) NARRATOR: Overlaying all of this, connecting the Bay and its watershed to the far reaches of the Western hemispheres is the migration ... and the largest of waterfowl.

“Encroachment was going to occur, bringing various kinds of development, and we believed it was necessary to save the riparian habitat to attract cranes, waterfowl and eagles,” Klataske said.