The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 78th-annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of about ...

The green-winged teal holds the distinction of being the smallest North American dabbling duck. Often weighing less than a pound, the hen greenwing is overall a drab, unassuming, mottled brown.

Green-winged teal are later migrators than the early-departing blue-winged cousins that kick off migration of waterfowl ...

The mallard population in those areas climbed by 8 percent and wigeons by a whopping 55 percent. Green-winged teal numbers were up 20 percent since 2023, and the scaup population jumped by 16 percent.

Green-winged teal numbers in 2024 were 20% above 2023 numbers and 38% above the long-term average. Blue-winged teal have experienced a decline, though. According to the report, ...