But it worked. Some days it took us until 9:30 a.m. to shoot our birds (which is late for teal), but we got’em every time. If you are hunting with just a couple buddies, all it takes is three or four ...

The annual survey estimates a total breeding population of 4.599 million blue-winged teal. ... Only about 100,000 birds are needed to get the population back into the range for a 16-day season.

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 ...

Songbirds such as Northern cardinals, blue jays or chickadees — the kind of birds that might visit bird feeders — can also become infected and die, but their populations appear to fare better since ...