Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Wec with his leucistic American black duck. Mike Wec was having a tough morning. The Massachusetts marsh he was hunting on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions ...

AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in January.

Michigan State University PhD student Ben Luukkonen takes measurements of a mallard hen held by Shannon Stemaly with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources while Kylie McElrath with Ducks ...