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 ...

There’s not much difference between a knowledgeable teal hunter and an opportunistic one. You actually have to be a bit of both when hunting blue-wings during the early September season. Once you find ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANAHUAC — Autumn was still a rumor during the last week of summer on the Texas coast. I sat in a duck blind with my compadres while mosquitoes swarmed us in the darkness. Daylight would bring a ...

Blue-winged teal are the earliest arriving waterfowl in Texas each fall. The special season has become a hunter favorite around the state, but especially along the coast. When it comes to a passionate ...

The 2025 early teal season opens statewide on Sept. 20. Hunters should note the season length has been shortened from 16 days to nine days due to declining numbers of blue-winged teal recorded by ...

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 ...

Ducks Unlimited's Waterfowl Migration Map is a sea of blue, testament to the annual late-summer flight of a 1-pound duck that is so endearing to the hearts of South Louisiana hunters. Unlike last year ...

AUSTIN Teal hunting season opens Sept. 14, and with wet conditions prevailing in many areas of Texas, hunters will have ample opportunities to harvest birds. Habitat conditions across much of the ...