Among the smallest and most widespread puddle ducks, teal are found all over the world. They are surface and shallow-water feeders that prefer small marshes and ponds, sheet-water, and any other ...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, Minnesota duck hunters were granted a special early teal-hunting season, which opened Saturday at sunrise statewide. The season is allowed for three years under ...

ERIE — What a difference a year makes. Or, for that matter, even a day. Opening morning of waterfowl season, which is for Canada goose and teal ducks only, found me in a panel blind on a pothole in a ...

For waterfowlers across the Midwest, teal season marks the first crack at migrating ducks and the welcome return of another fall. Teal found in the Midwest are almost always blue-winged, green-winged ...

The stately greenhead rules with the duck hunting masses, but the blue-winged teal is the early bird favorite with Texas’ waterfowl crowd. Teal are always the first ducks to hightail it out of their ...

First time was a charm for Danny Counts, who turns out presentation quality duck calls that bring waterfowl winging toward the region's sloughs and backwaters. Five years ago, the duck hunter from ...

It was just last year that the Department of Natural Resources launched a trial teal season in Minnesota. It was met with approval by most waterfowl hunters so a second early teal season was recently ...