Saskatchewan is the waterfowling mecca of the central flyway. With plans hatched the previous year, I joined friend John Kratochvil for a week of chasing birds in Saskatchewan in the prime of October.

We watched intently as our guide, Nate, worked his black lab retriever, scooping geese that had fallen far from the decoys. A short, high-pitched blast on a whistle and an exaggerated arm motion to ...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — Like mallards swarming a prairie slough on a crisp fall morning, tributes poured in last week for Harold Duebbert, a renowned waterfowl biologist, hunter, writer and carver of ...