For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with populations of ducks growing nationwide even as ...

For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many other groups of birds declined in the U.S. But that trend has reversed ...

Risk described ducks this way in his 1893 book, “Observed and Noted’’: “In their dumb, stupid, quacking way they go through the world like other ‘quacks’ — grow big and fat.

For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many other groups of birds declined in the U.S. But that trend has reversed ...