Grab your binoculars and take a 'quack' at correctly identifying two commonly confused ducks: the redhead vs canvasback.

To the waterfowl enthusiast, the canvasback duck channels a swagger reminiscent of Elvis Presley, and not just because people in the music world called him “the king.” Challenging on the wing, widely ...

The canvasback is member of the genus, Aythya, which is comprised of a dozen species of diving ducks. The other members of the genus in North America include greater scaup, lesser scaup, redhead and ...

The sound spoke as clearly as the sight that almost immediately followed. It was a low rumble behind us that in a heartbeat became a tearing roar as the birds passed maybe 20 yards overhead, braking ...

I have oftentimes attempted to imagine what it would have been like to be an early 19th century explorer from Europe who had the opportunity to provide names to animals for the first time. Sometimes, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — At the duck house at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids, something rare happened this year: one of the canvasback ducks in the park's Old MacDonald's Farm duck exhibit hatched four babies. That ...