In Minnesota and across North America, Delta Waterfowl works to produce more ducks, save prairie wetlands and ensure a bright future for duck hunters. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” ...

ST. PAUL – St. Paul artist Matt Linz won the 2026 Minnesota waterfowl stamp contest with an oil painting of a bufflehead pair, the Department of Natural Resources announced in a news release. Stephen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 9—ST. PAUL — Minnesota's blue-winged teal population is down 60% from last year, the Department of Natural Resources said in ...

Minnesota's waterfowl hunters will see a season very similar to last year's, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday. The season will open a half-hour before sunrise Sept. 21 ...

Minnesota waterfowlers will hold a Duck Summit March 27-28 in Nicollet — near the shores of venerable Swan Lake, which once was one of North America’s migratory bird meccas. The planned gathering, ...

DULUTH — The number of breeding ducks estimated across the continent hit 33.99 million this spring, up 5% over 2023, but nearly all of the increase happened in the far north and west. That’s the ...

MAZEPPA, Minn. — Taylor Nelson and Jeremy McDonough shot a few geese Sunday evening and got rid of the waterfowl hunting itch — only for a few days. The friends expect it will be back even stronger ...

The inclination today is to dress up this column in reader-friendly terms and headline it, "Five takeaways from this weekend's continuing teal hunt 'experiment.' " But that would trivialize the ...

There’s a very real and sobering fact staring waterfowl hunters in the face. There aren’t enough of us around anymore. Minnesota is following the larger national trend of declining hunting ...

In the 1850s, W.G. Gresham settled one of the earliest claims on Swan Lake, in southern Minnesota, a stone’s throw from the small burg of Nicollet. Gresham, who later became a judge in St. Peter, Minn ...

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 ...