American Wigeon
One of only three wigeon species in the world, the American Wigeon (Mareca americana, formerly Anas americana) is a medium sized dabbler is one-of-a-kind with the drake’s distinctly adorned “bald-pate” white forehead extending to the crown. Another distinctive feature in drakes is the broad green brushstroke from the eyes to the back of the neck, light brown breast, and white coverts. Both sexes have a stubby, goose-like blue-gray bill with black tips. Grey legs, white underbelly, green speculum. In flight, large white upper wing patches seen while banking are a tell-tale sign. Hen’s plumage on the head is gray speckled. Juveniles and molted drakes resemble hens with similar plumage.
Available Hunts
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Alberta Canada Duck and Goose Hunt
Ranchland Outfitters best-of-best Alberta Canada Duck and goose hunting packages feature excellent waterfowl hunts, world-class food, unrivaled hospitality.
...read more- Inclusive Ranchland Outfitters package includes lodging and meals, professional guide services, scouting, ammo, hunting transfers, and bird processing.
- Choose either 3- or 6-day packages
- September through early November, and even into mid-December!
- Specializes in exclusive groups of 6-8, but smaller groups welcomed, too
- Millions acres stretching from boreal forest to US border
- Mallards, pintails, Canada geese, cackler geese, snow geese, white-fronted geese.
Rate: $3,750 hunter packages -
Arkansas Duck Hunting
Arkansas duck hunting camp experience on one of the state's most coveted properties. Location, location, location - smack in the middle of a 6,000- acre federal sanctuary, the area literally swarms with ducks daily.
...read more- Exclusive property surrounded by federal sanctuary holds many ducks for the entire Arkansas duck hunting season.
- Predominately mallards, pintail, gadwalls, green-wings and more
- Spacious, covered blind holds up 8-10 guns is very easily accessed with short, dry walk. Leave the waders at home!
- Large, deluxe 4-suite lodging
- Excellent home-cooked meals provided
- Located 30 minutes from Bastrop, 1 hour from Monroe, LA
- Corporate group rates
Rate: $650 day -
Kansas Duck and Goose Hunting
Big Kansas Outdoors delivers high-energy, action packed Kansas duck and goose hunting in Central Kansas. It's the kind of waterfowl hunting for which Kansas has become famous.
...read more- Dry-field and wetland hunts for ducks and geese
- Waterfowl-only and waterfowl-upland combos
- Value-priced packages include lodging and meals
- Full-time scouts find the active feeds, full-time guides make it happen
- Within a day’s drive for most of the US
- As featured on The Grind and Heartland Waterfowl
Rate: $1,800+ (3-day waterfowl-only) -
Kansas Duck Hunting
Kansas Duck Hunting at Carter's Big Island Hunt Club is about mallards and more mallards. This is Kansas mallard hunting over water at its finest.
...read more- Mallards, mallards, mallards
- All-day duck hunts or until limits
- Lodging and meals not included
- Private, family-owned properties
- Flooded green-timber reservoir
- Flooded grain-crops (corn, milo, millet)
- Pitblinds, sled blinds
Rate: $850 day -
Louisiana Duck Hunting – Coastal Marsh at Venice
Never more than 3 steps away from the duck blind - Inclusive package for individuals, families, and corporate groups that want to cast or blast (or cast and blast) while living it up like cajun kings.
...read more- Coastal Louisiana duck hunting, inshore or offshore fishing, perfect Cast & Blast
- Premium lodging and excellent chef-prepared meals featuring regional specialties
- Spacious lodge sleeps up to 18
- Accepts booking 1-18+ (no mixed groups)
- Excellent early blue-winged teal hunting (September), regular duck season November-January)
- Plus inshore and offshore fishing
Rate: $500/day -
Mexico Duck Hunting Mazatlan
Mexico duck hunting Mazatlan ("honeymoon duck hunt") is the South-of-the-border duck hunting experience that surpasses all others.
...read moreMexico Duck Hunting Mazatlan is the easiest duck hunt you’ll ever get your wife onboard with because she’ll have just as much fun. Win-win duck hunting vacation as ever existed.
- Honeymoon duck hunting, non-hunting spouses enjoy it as much as hunters!
- January through mid-March (Valentine’s Day always sells-out first!)
- Resort hotel lodging, guaranteed great views (choose your own reservations and amenity levels while booking directly)
- Over 15 trophy duck species including Cinnamon Teal
- Generous 25-duck daily bag limits
- Many fun non-hunting activities
Rate: from $3,850 -
Mexico Duck Hunting Nayarit
I invite you to experience authentic Mexico duck and dove hunting at its very best. INCLUSIVE Mexico Duck Hunting Nayarit Combo is genuine yesteryear Mexico duck hunting
...read moreAvailable only through GetDucks.com, the Nayarit Mexico duck hunt combo package represents superior bang-for-the-buck value and is truly inclusive, including everything but flying into to Mazatlan and the ammo you shoot.
- Includes everything but flying into Mazatlan and your ammo. That’s it!
- Morning ducks, afternoon doves, 6 hunts, generous limits
- Prized species include blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, green-winged teal, northern shovelers, black-bellied whistlers, fulvous whistlers, more.
- Minimum 4 hunters, maximum 6, exclusive groups only.
- Best, most authentic meals in Mexico.
- Minimum 4 hunters
Rate: $4,240 INCLUSIVE -
Mexico Duck Hunting Obregon
Mexico duck hunt combo for real duck hunters. All-day hunts for broad variety of Central Flyway and Pacific Flyway duck species.
...read moreMexico duck hunting combo in Obregon is an action-packed “real duck hunters duck hunt” for ducks, doves, options for trophy bass fishing and quail.
- Trophy duck species for nearly all Central and Pacific flyway species to include cinnamon teal, Mexican mallard, more!
- Generous bag limits
- Elegant and Gambel’s quail, trophy largemouth bass fishing options
- Premium, 9-bedroom estancia and unequalled guest services
- Featured – Wildfowl, World of Beretta, MOJO TV, Outdoor Life, NRA Hunter, more
Rate: $4,880 (4-day hunt) -
Mexico Duck Hunting Sonora
Mexico Duck Hunt package is intended for private groups of 4-7 hunters.
...read moreMexico Duck Hunting Sonora Combo was developed at the request of many repeat clients who wanted to enjoy morning Mexican duck hunting, afternoon dove hunts, with their own exclusive groups.
- 4-night, 3-day packages, January-February
- For private groups of 4-6 hunters
- Morning duck hunts, afternoon dove hunts
- Premium, 4-bedroom estancia, all bedrooms with ensuite facilities
- Excellent waterfowl species selection
Rate: $4,080 (3-day hunts) -
Missouri Duck Hunting
Missouri is usually where many mallards hang out until until hard water and snow cover finally drives drive them further south.
...read more- GREENHEADS, gadwalls, green-wings, pintails and specklebellies
- Rice, beans, flooded timber. Comfortable blinds.
- Inclusive 3-day packages include lodging, home-cooked meals, guided hunts
- NEW premium 9,000 square-foot lodge
- Perfect for 4-8 hunters.
- November through early January
Rate: $1,500 for 3-days
American wigeons can be extremely vocal and has distinctive, high-pitched “slow” whistle that can be heard throughout the year. The three-segmented call sounds nasally, and even described as “kazoo-like” whistling. Wigeons are responsive to calling.
Breeding season habitats for American Wigeon ranges from Alaska, Canada, and into Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota. Hens will nest on dry ground, usually in field close to ponds, wetlands, and marshes. During this season, their diet consists mainly on terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates. Any other time of the year their diet is dominated by plant materials, usually leaves and stems, where their bills are readily adept. American Widgeons often forage in groups of other duck species, stealing food as it becomes available.
Their wintering zone occurs along the entirety of the west coast, from Alaska to Mexico, through the southern half of the United States. During hunting season, American wigeons will change their daily routine, hiding throughout the day in dense vegetation, feeding in fields at night.
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