No ordinary duck: Meet the northern shoveler. Like their elders, the ducklings eat plants, small fish, insects, and just about anything else they can find. They love to eat bread thrown by humans ...

North Carolina Wildlife says the only other confirmed case in wild birds was in Buncombe County. Last month state agriculture ...

Even though the blue-winged shoveler is on the game list, it is classified as a threatened species and hunting of the native birds was previously banned, including during the 2024 duck-hunting ...