It was late in the season and most of the birds were gone. But there had to be a few stragglers out there, late migrators that hadn’t yet left for warmer waters. Jordan Lillemon tossed his decoys into ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “If you build it, they will come” was the famous saying from the movie “Field of Dreams.” Of course, this referred to a warm summer Iowa cornfield being ...

The construction and restoration of wetlands can improve the living conditions of bird populations. According to a recent study, grazing is the single most important maintenance method for wetlands, ...

A three-year study in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana found that -- even at small scales -- emergent wetlands or ponds support many wetland bird species. The study also found that, at ...

Graceful flyers with a distinctive, slender silhouette and a cautious manner, northern pintail ducks are seen in all 50 states. Early breeders and early migrants, they breed as far north as Alaska and ...

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck! Right? Not this time, it’s a duck decoy. Actually, it’s a collection of 70 on exhibit at the Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum. Mark Cromwell, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. ASHBY, Minn. — It was late in the season and most of the birds were gone. But there had to be a few ...

“If you build it, they will come” was the famous saying from the movie “Field of Dreams.” Of course, this referred to a warm summer Iowa cornfield being transformed into a baseball field, not a ...