Note the flatter heads of these lesser scaup and the dark purple head color on the drake. Feng Yu/Adobe Stock. How To Hunt Bluebill Ducks. Ninety-five percent of waterfowlers targeting scaup do so ...

The scaup, it could be said, are difficult ducks to deal with. Two species occur in North America, but you can’t tell by looking. Well, you can, but you have to know what you’re looking for ...

Diving Ducks: Lesser and Greater Scaup. Also known as “bluebills” due to their heavy black-tipped powder blue bills/beaks, scaup can be found in all four flyways.

Scaup, ring-necked duck. September 10, 2008 at 12:50AM. Comment. Gift. Share. Listen. ... In the hand, and when fully plumed, ring-necked ducks have more tufted heads than bluebills.

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Tens of thousands of migrating lesser scaup ducks have arrived on Mississippi River Pool 19. Located at Keokuk, Pool 19 is the spring migration’s most important stopover. Swarming northward from ...

Among lesser scaup and ruddy ducks, the regrowth varies in length or timing depending on whether males have to compete with a bunch of other guys, said Patricia Brennan of Yale University.

SCAUP SEASON (Bluebills) Scaup, like ducks, are split up into four zones but have different days. The federal requirement says the first 45 days have a bag limit of two and a possession limit of ...