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Blue-winged Teal. The largest of the three U.S. teal, a mature bluewing will weigh 18 to 24 ounces. In early fall, both drakes and hens will be a similarly mottled brown with a dark brown or black ...

Then from Sept. 22-25, it's teal only, with the early wood duck season closed until the beginning of the general waterfowl season in Florida, which is split: Nov. 19-27, Dec. 10-Jan. 29.

Some waterfowl are resident, but most are migratory. Teal are in a group known as the surface feeding ducks or dabblers. Surface feeding ducks rarely dive, rather they feed by grazing near ...

The Upper Texas Coast's public waterfowl hunting opportunities on national wildlife refuges and state wildlife management areas for the 2004-05 season: · Teal season -- The Cedar Lakes (2,400 ...

It was a busy waterfowl opener at many public accesses, with a mixed bag of ducks being brought in. Waterfowl hunters took mallards, wood ducks, pintails, ring necks and teal.

It’s early September, and, like all waterfowl hunters, Larry Reynolds has that can’t-wait look in his eyes. ‘Teal are here:’ Waterfowl season outlook promising | Louisiana Outdoors ...

Green-winged teal tally 3.5 million birds, up 20 percent over last year, and 74 percent higher than the bird average over the past 60 years. Blue-winged teal numbers are even better, ...

Sitting in the world of shadows that envelop a shallow, freshwater wetland on Texas' coastal prairie just ahead of a mid-September dawn can almost convince a person that spontaneous generation is ...

The reports of so many shotguns won't scatter mallards, teal, wood ducks and other waterfowl before the regular duck season opens Sept. 25. Or so says DNR waterfowl specialist Steve Cordts, ...