Redhead
Redheads (Aythya americana) have ruddy red heads with bright, yellow eyes. Drake redheads have gray and white vermiculated plumage along their backs and white underbellies. Hens are mostly gray brown in color, with a white chin, small eye patch, and belly. Drakes have blue gray bills topped with black, and females display a slightly darker version. Both sexes display mostly brown wings that contrasts with the light gray secondaries and primaries. Hen redheads and ring-necked ducks look very similar. Both have dark upper wings, with redheads usually expressing slightly more vermiculation. In flight, redheads are characterized as fast fliers with shallow wingbeats. While hen redhead raspy kwaks are infrequenty vocalized, drake redheads can be identified by their typical wheezy feline-sounding weeouh and rolling rrrrrrr calls. Like most diving ducks, they decoy well. Use the growling rrrrrr when calling to them.
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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 -
Manitoba Canada Duck and Goose Hunting
Birdtail Waterfowl has perfected the Manitoba Canada waterfowl hunting experience for ducks and geese. Highly organized, everything runs like clockwork.
...read more- Best total-package waterfowl hunt in Manitoba Canada. Period.
- Extremely large and productive hunting area, diverse habitats
- Mallards, pintails, Canada geese, cackling geese, snow geese, white-fronted geese, sandhill cranes–and unbelievably great diver hunts for those that choose
- Chef-prepared meals, private cottages, excellent attention to details
- Youth hunter discounts, non-hunting spouses welcomed
- September through early-November
Rate: $2,900-3900 -
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 $3,420 -
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) -
North Dakota Pheasant Hunting Combo
Guided North Dakota Pheasant Hunting package offers options for pheasant hunting only, or a true pheasant hunting plus waterfowl hunting combo. Ringneck Resort represents a long-standing reputable outfitter program and highly experienced guide-staff..
...read more- North Dakota pheasant hunting combo to include waterfowl hunting
- Pheasant hunting-only packages available (wild, preserve or both)
- Inclusive packages includes signature meals, well-stocked bar
- Spacious, well-appointed lodge sleeps 48 guests. Ensuite rooms.
- Solo hunters welcome. No party-size too big or too small
- Bring your own dogs or hunt over Ringneck Resort’s excellent dog power
Rate: $2,750 (3-day Combo) -
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 Waterfowl Hunt – Desert Paradise
Texas waterfowl hunt packages features relatively unpressured ducks, geese and sandhill cranes in an area so large it takes 3 lodges to cover and so ecologically diverse that most Central Flyway waterfowl species can be hunted!
...read more- Inclusive Texas waterfowl hunting packages for ducks, geese, sandhill cranes, doves, early blue-winged teal, spring turkeys, more.
- 3 lodges to cover vast, relatively undisturbed waterfowl hunting area and to offer flexibility for desired bucket-list species, amenity-level needs, or personal budget
- Central flyway puddle ducks to include prized mottled duck, Mexican duck, cinnamon teal, fulvous whistling duck, black-bellied whistling duck opportunities all right here in USA
- Sandhill crane hunting and white-fronted goose hunting are the Speck Ops Waterfowl house specialties
- Luxurious lodging with over-the-top and fun activities provide fun for bachelor or business hunting groups, entire families and non-hunters,
Rate: $2,000 to $2,900
Redhead breeding zone ranges from secluded Alaska, central Canada, and norther-western United States. Most are found in central Canada in seasonal ponds containing cattails and bulrushes for nesting and foraging. Hens are the most prolific example brood parasitism, laying eggs in the nests of their own species, that of many other species of ducks, and have even laid eggs in the nests of Northern Harriers. Compared to other ducklings among the Aythya genus, ducklings are the lightest and yellowest, and sport gray legs and feet lighter than their adult redheads.
These medium-sized divers are very sociable and can be seen in flocks numbering into the thousands during times of migration. During the wintering season, redhead density is greatest around Lake Erie, the coast of North Carolina, and especially throughout the Gulf Coast, but may be found throughout the U.S. with the exception of some northwestern states. There’s no doubting the redheads are in when massive flocks trade across New York’s finger lakes, it’s said. Texas’s Matagorda Bay usually overwinters very many and has a long-standing reputation for bagging prime drakes within the US. Redheads wintering on the Gulf of Mexico will eat small snails and clams along with shoalgrass, seeking quieter conditions nearer to shore when the winds kick up, and coming inland to drink freshwater.
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