The Midwinter Waterfowl Survey started in 1935 and is one of the longest-running, coordinated migratory bird surveys in North America counting wintering populations of waterfowl.

Cold early and midwinter temperatures drove down the number of geese and ducks in North Dakota.

North Dakota's Audubon National Wildlife Refuge is rife with all sorts of native passerines, waders and waterfowl.

To the waterfowl enthusiast ... His visual claim to fame is a high-sloping forehead and bill—no other North American duck sports such an angular profile. The drake’s large head is rusty ...

Conducted each January, the continentwide counts are designed to monitor populations of wild ducks, geese, and swans that may nest in areas – such as the Canadian arctic – which ...

Avian influenza, commonly called the bird flu, is infecting waterfowl in the Tippecanoe County area, according to the Indiana ...

The waterfowl population work has been conducted ... But this year showed an uptick. North America's most abundant duck ...

Numbers of Canada geese were down during the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's 2025 midwinter waterfowl survey along the Missouri River, which was no surprise, given the cold weather in ...

Europe and North America. Waterfowl hunters may remember finding dead and dying snow geese in 2022, particularly at the beginning of the waterfowl season in Arkansas rice fields. "Mortality in ...