The stately greenhead rules with the duck hunting masses, but the blue-winged teal is the early bird favorite with Texas’ waterfowl crowd. Teal are always the first ducks to hightail it out of their ...

Teal season is the kick-off to duck season. Because blue-wings typically arrive in earnest in late August and early September, it’s a chance for waterfowlers to shake off the rust after months without ...

There’s not much difference between a knowledgeable teal hunter and an opportunistic one. You actually have to be a bit of both when hunting blue-wings during the early September season. Once you find ...

The 2025 early teal season opens statewide on Sept. 20. Hunters should note the season length has been shortened from 16 days to nine days due to declining numbers of blue-winged teal recorded by ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2024 waterfowl population status report released Tuesday indicates another significant drop in numbers for blue-winged teal, an important species for Texas hunters ...

When it comes to a passionate interest, waterfowl hunters are about as rabid as they come. To get up well before daylight, squeeze into ridiculously tight neoprene waders and head out onto the water ...

The inclination today is to dress up this column in reader-friendly terms and headline it, "Five takeaways from this weekend's continuing teal hunt 'experiment.' " But that would trivialize the ...

ANAHUAC — Autumn was still a rumor during the last week of summer on the Texas coast. I sat in a duck blind with my compadres while mosquitoes swarmed us in the darkness. Daylight would bring a ...

Despite a slight decline in the overall duck population estimate, Mississippi hunters will have a largely unchanged hunting season for 2026-27.

It was just last year that the Department of Natural Resources launched a trial teal season in Minnesota. It was met with approval by most waterfowl hunters so a second early teal season was recently ...