Migration Alert: Pacific Flyway Hunters Looking for Strong Finish
Pacific Flyway hunters will face early fog, sunshine, and then clear weather conditions from border to border for the last weekend of the 2013-14 duck season.
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Migration Alert: Opportunities Remain for California Waterfowlers
California waterfowlers are facing what has become the driest year on record, making habitat conditions less than ideal. Yet, waterfowl hunters throughout the state continue to be optimistic.
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Migration Alert: Approaching Front Brings Much-Needed Change for Pacific Northwest Waterfowlers
The Pacific Northwest is bracing for rain and high winds this weekend, as a front approaches from the south and mixes with Pacific moisture from the north. This bodes well for wingshooters hoping to improve their season with a late regional migration throughout Oregon and Washington.
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Migration Alert: Changing Conditions May Improve Waterfowling in Washington and Oregon
Unfavorable weather conditions—warm temperatures, fog, and a lack of precipitation—combined with a full moon had Washington waterfowlers struggling over the holidays.
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Migration Alert: Drought Continues to Impact California Waterfowl
California hunters are hoping for the arrival of stormy and wet winter weather, which will hopefully result in more typical waterfowl distribution in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
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Migration Alert: Incoming Weather Offers Ideal Conditions in Washington
Ducks are filtering into Washington's upper Columbia Basin, says Chris Bonsignore, Ducks Unlimited's conservation program manager in the Spokane Valley.
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Tom Dunkin II: Future of Northwest Waterfowling Inspires Giving
Tom Dunkin II of Redmond, Washington, is a Heritage Sponsor supporting DU's Wings and Wetlands Initiative. This initiative is dedicated to conserving important waterfowl habitats in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, as well as preserving the outdoor traditions of the Pacific Northwest. Tom's story appeared in the 2013 DU Annual Report.
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Migration Alert: Oregon Waterfowlers Still Waiting for Northern Flights
Duck hunting has been improving in Oregon in recent days, especially for those willing to scout and locate birds. Most of the action is on the Oregon coast right now, but there are still plenty of birds that have yet to arrive from the north.
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Migration Alert: Utah Waterfowlers Watching the Weather
After a strong start to the 2013-2014 waterfowl season, hunting success in Utah has tapered off in recent days, but that could all change this weekend as a winter storm system arrives.
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Migration Alert: Idaho Hunting Improves, Migration Picks up Pace
With Pacific storm fronts approaching from the northwest, coupled with the onset of freezing temperatures in prairie Canada, hunting success should only improve throughout Idaho and much of the Pacific Flyway.
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Migration Alert: DU TV reports from Utah
The DU-TV crew is currently filming in Utah on the Great Salt Lake. Conditions haven't been favorable and waterfowling has been slow. Future weather patterns should provide more birds as the season progresses.
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Migration Alert: Oregon Waterfowlers Face Tough Early Conditions
In Oregon, record-shattering rainfall in September and the closure of national wildlife refuges and other federal lands to hunting were responsible for a disappointing start to the duck season this past weekend.
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Migration Alert: State-by-state Pacific Flyway Breakdown
Early migrating waterfowl, feeling an early winter pinch, are filtering south throughout the Pacific Flyway states and finding variable habitat conditions upon arrival in the region.
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Working with Partners in the West
Ducks Unlimited works with partners throughout its Western Region and all along the length of the Pacific Flyway to ensure wetlands and other waterfowl and wildlife habitat are protected now and for future generations. Some of DU's partners talk about this important collaborative conservation work.
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Wings and Wetlands Initiative
In Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, significant wetland habitats have been lost. As human populations soar, the demand for water increases, putting even more pressure on remaining wetlands.
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Welcome to the Pacific Flyway
Renowned for a rich diversity of waterfowl species and habitat, the Pacific Flyway is one of North America's greatest waterfowl treasures.
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Ducks in the Desert Initiative
Restoring the valuable wetland oases of America's desert landscape for waterfowl, other wildlife, and communities across the West, from the Great Salt Lake to the Lower Colorado River.
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California Wetlands Initiative
Restoring Golden State wetlands to healthy wintering habitats and helping provide water solutions for waterfowl, other wildlife, and Californians.
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U.S. leaders meet with DU and partners to discuss Salton Sea solutions
Ducks Unlimited Regional Biologist Chris Hildebrandt recently took part in a prestigious panel discussion focused on the plight of the Salton Sea.
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DU supports Interior-issued plan for Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Feb. 21, 2013 - Ducks Unlimited applauds today's announcement from the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approving a management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). This plan will balance the needs of countless wildlife - including important populations of several waterfowl species and shorebirds - with exploration for oil and gas.
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Migration Alert: Good Signs for Great Late Goose Hunting
The sun sets on duck season this week in the Pacific Flyway, and now geese are the only game in town. Hunters like Jason Haley of My Outdoor Buddy took one last shot at duck hunting before moving on to late-season geese, which offer limited but excellent opportunities until March 10, when the federal framework governing waterfowling hunting closes all seasons until fall.
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Migration Alert: Northwest Duck Hunting Goes on Ice; California Has Hot Spots
Duck hunters will find nothing great about the Great Northwest as the season comes to a close this week, but the forecast continues to be fair in sunny California.
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Migration Alert: Hunters Toast New Year with Cold Duck
Hunters in the Columbia Basin and eastern Oregon managed to bag their birds this past week, but they had to put in their time, by either scouting in advance or hunting all day.
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Migration Alert: Duck Hunters Dream of a White Christmas
West Coast duck hunters want not only a white Christmas but also an early one that will deliver all the ducks on their wish lists.
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Migration Alert: Rain, wind not enough to push California waterfowl south
Waterfowl habitat overall is looking great in the Central Valley. Lots of water means an abundance of shallow flooded areas, even rice ground that was not intentionally flooded is now providing decent habitat.
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Migration Alert: Cold weather may improve California waterfowl hunting
The mild weather pushed waterfowl into an easy lifestyle of resting on the closed areas. However, colder weather setting in should force the birds to get out and feed more often, putting them in front of more hunters.
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Migration Alert: Oregon waterfowlers having success along the coast
Western Oregon waterfowl hunters are experiencing average hunting conditions at the onset of the 2012-13 waterfowl hunting season.
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Migration Alert: Early pintail arrivals indicate dry conditions in north Pacific Flyway
Pintails typically arrive like clockwork on August 10. Unfortunately, this likely reflects the dry conditions in the Klamath Basin, which is forcing waterfowl to fly over and travel farther south earlier than normal.
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California legislators weigh in on recently proposed water plan
California Gov. Jerry Brown's recent announcement of his proposed Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is being met with skepticism from more than one California legislator.
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Migration Alert: Sacramento Valley hunters need winter weather
The birds are here in the Sacramento Valley but hunter success for the remainder of the season is going to depend on weather, especially for rice field hunters.
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Understanding Waterfowl: Ways of the Wigeon
These fascinating ducks have many characteristics and behaviors that set them apart
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Massive Coastal Restoration Project Completed in California
For the first time in more than 100 years, tidal waters returned in August to the former Napa Plant Site salt-production facility adjacent to the Napa River on the northern reaches of San Francisco Bay.
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Waterfowl Migration Flyways
Banding research helped waterfowl managers map the major migration corridors followed by ducks and geese, which are known today as flyways. For management purposes, North America is divided into four flyways—the Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific.
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DU Projects: Pacific Flyway
The Pacific Flyway stretches 4,000 miles north-to-south and 1,000 miles east-to-west. From the Arctic to the west coast of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, this flyway encompasses the most varied waterfowl habitats in North America. DU and its partners have conserved more than 984,000 acres of waterfowl habitat in the U.S. portion of the Pacific Flyway alone.
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2010 Waterfowl Forecast
Waterfowl populations remain at high levels overall thanks to favorable breeding habitat conditions
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Sonoran and Mohave Deserts / Sierra Madre Occidental
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's habitat conservation work in the Sonoran and Mohave Deserts / Sierra Madre Occidental priority area
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Baja California Desert
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's habitat conservation efforts in the Baja California Desert priority area.
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Pacific Northwest
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's habitat conservation work in the Pacific Northwest priority area.
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Great Basin
An overview of Ducks Unlimited's conservation efforts in its Great Basin priority area.
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California Bay Area Projects
Ducks Unlimited conservation projects in California's San Francisco Bay Area
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Waterfowl in the Last Frontier
Alaska has experienced a waterfowl population boom, but future development and climate change could threaten the birds and their habitat.
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Mexico's West Coast Wetlands
Shrimp farming and harmful runoff threaten coastal habitat that is crucial to Pacific Flyway waterfowl.
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California Conservation Projects
Ducks Unlimited habitat conservation projects in California. These projects benefit waterfowl, other wildlife and people. View sample projects, project map and more.
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Sonoran and Mohave Deserts - More Information
Background information on DU's Sonoran and Mohave Deserts conservation priority area
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Pacific Northwest - More Information
More information on Ducks Unlimited's Pacific Northwest conservation priority area.
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