Duck and goose bands are critical conservation tools. They're also prized souvenirs for waterfowlers. And if the hunter takes the time to report a band, it can be the beginning of an incredible story.

MONROE COUNTY — For weeks, it was slow going for Molly Giles, a waterfowl biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Northeast Region. Giles has spent the winter trying to trap and band ducks ...

The tiny aluminum band that Lowell Deede crimped onto the leg of a muddy, straining mallard duck carried only the barest of information: A hyphenated identification number, a toll-free phone number ...

Rob Vollrath has bagged his share of banded ducks and geese over the years, but nothing like the mallard he shot Oct. 28 in northern North Dakota. Besides a leg band, the drake had a tiny device with ...

Appropriately, John James Audubon is regularly credited with being the first person to employ bird banding in North America. The artist, naturalist, writer and hunter is said to have tied silver ...

USK, Wash. – Standing on the banks of a slough off the Pend Oreille River, TC Peterson cradled a mallard like a football. He held out its right leg between two fingers. With his other hand, he used a ...

It is always exciting to harvest a banded bird and to find out the information about that bird like where was it banded, how old it is and where it has traveled. These questions are usually answered ...

MACON, Ga. — Duck hunting season will open Nov. 22, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources ' Wildlife Resources Division (WRD). The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said ...

Beginning at 9 a.m. Feb. 11, Five Oaks Duck Lodge near George Dunklin/Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area welcomed 42 young people for a day of waterfowl education. The program is in its second year, ...