Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors, formerly Anas discors) are aptly named for the striking sky-blue wing patch visible to us avid hunters while hunting them during the early season, long before they’ve molted. Among the same genus, blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and northern shovelers (drakes and hens both) have similar wing plumage with a pale, cobalt blue upper wing patches and dark metallic green speculums separated by a white stripe of secondary coverts. In breeding plumage, blue-winged teal drakes have blue-gray heads with a white crescent moon pattern in front of the eyes. In hand, the gray may even show violet iridescence. Bill is dark gray. Legs are yellow with gray webbing. During the spring, breeding drake blue-winged teal legs are bright yellow. Another distinguishing characteristic is the white patch at the base of the black tail on the drake. Hens have a mottled brown/gray appearance, with adult females having heavy mottled bills. Hens quack, forming a choppy staccato of barks, and this species will respond well to calls.
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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) -
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 welcomed at no additional cost
- January through mid-March (Valentine’s Day always sells-out first!)
- Resort Hotel lodging, guaranteed great views
- Over 15 trophy duck species including Cinnamon Teal
- Generous 20-duck daily bag limits
- Many fun non-hunting activities
Rate: from $4,495 -
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.
Rate: $3,990 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) -
Oklahoma Duck Hunt
Oklahoma duck hunting a little over an hour drive from Dallas - as good as it gets. We've promoted this hunt for a very long time, always happy client feedback.
...read moreExcellently guided Oklahoma duck hunts are located a little over an hour north from Dallas. Perfect opportunity for a morning hunt before work or an easy weekend hunt with friends, family or business associates.
- Located 1 to 1.5 hours from downtown Dallas
- Expertly-guided Oklahoma duck hunts, afternoon hog hunting available
- Oklahoma and Texas depending on bird activity
- Mostly dry blinds, waders not always needed
- Cabin accommodations for up to 8 can be provided
- Meals not included
Rate: $400 per morning -
Texas Duck Hunting – Gulf Coast Redheads and More
Run-N-Gun Adventures accesses the greatest percentage of the entire world’s population of overwintering redheads on nearby Laguna Madre and surrounding areas for the Texas duck hunting experience of a lifetime. But LOTS more, too.
...read more- Trophy Redheads on Matagorda Bay
- Pintail, teal, mottled ducks, black-bellied whistlers, white-fronts, snows and more
- 50,000+ acres exclusive, intensively managed properties
- Cast & Blast packages and afternoon hunts available
- NEW 11,000 sqft luxurious lodge, chef-prepared meals
- Located only 1 hour from Houston
Rate: $175-300 day rate/ $1,425 and up packages -
Texas Goose Hunting – Panhandle
Texas goose hunting the west Texas panhandle remains America's best kept secret. Countless, shallow playa lakes in a landscape of agriculture provides perfect overwintering habitat for thousands of geese, ducks and sandhill cranes.
...read more- High-success hunting (goose or crane limits are the norm)
- Canada geese, white-fronts, snows, ducks, sandhill cranes, and more
- Many exclusive hunting properties within 1-hour radius of Plainview
- Combos and afternoon hunts available
- Camp-house lodging available (not a hotel hunt)
Rate: $375 -
Texas Teal Hunting – Coastal Prairie
Texas blue-winged teal hunting program is BEST - perfect location and management produce a greater concentration of blue-winged teal than many hunters will witness elsewhere in their lives.
...read more- Best blue-winged teal hunt in US, period
- Limits are the rule, not the exception (5.5 teal per hunter average)
- Short 16-day September season
- Convenient to Houston, Texas
- Executive lodging for 21 guests, southern home-cooked meals
- Youth hunter discounts
- As seen on MOJO TV and in Wildfowl Magazine
Rate: $500
Blue-winged teal breed exclusively in North America, with the largest congregations found in the prairie potholes portions of Saskatchewan and North and South Dakota. Diet during the breeding season consist mostly of protein-rich foods such as aquatic insects and snails, especially hens who need the protein for egg laying; but they will also consume grains when available. These birds will often migrate from the U.S. before many states are open for the regular duck season, so there is a season specifically for them that opens in September.
Blue-winged teal overwinter down the east coast of North America, in a few southern states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida), all of Mexico and even into South America. Habitat requirements during this time are fulfilled in areas that have vegetated wetlands that have water lilies, a preferred food source, and contain decaying organic matter. There, blue-winged teal diet is dominated by other plant material, including rice and millet.
This species is among the most abundant duck found in North America, second only to the Mallard. Blue-winged Teal populations have remained stable over the past fifty years.
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