January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...

This week’s nature series features the Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis, one of our most common diving ducks that is well known to hunters as the little bluebill or broadbill. This bird is common locally ...

The scaup, it could be said, are difficult ducks to deal with. Two species occur in North America, but you can’t tell by looking. Well, you can, but you have to know what you’re looking for, and you ...

Found especially on inland waters, Lesser Scaup are one of North America’s most abundant, widespread diving ducks. Often, you will see them with Canvasbacks and Redheads.

As the spring thaw begins to open bodies of water, ducks begin to migrate through Teller County. Although Teller is rather dry, rivers and lakes do attract some diving ducks that like deeper water.

Wildlife managers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are again finding dead lesser scaup on Lake Winnibigoshish north of Deer River this fall, the agency announced Thursday. The ducks ...

In the 1990s, when snow and rain returned to the prairies and parklands after a long period of drought, and when conservation programs expanded upland cover in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region, most ...

Identifying environmental metrics specific to lesser scaup (Aythya affînis; scaup) spring migration chronology may help inform development of conservation, management and population monitoring. Our ...