Alaska Duck Hunting Guides and Outfitters

Duck: This web-footed, swimming waterfowl game bird is in the family Anatidae, which also includes the goose and swan. And is a very popular game bird with Alaska hunting guides and outfitters offering trips for it.

It is distinguished from the goose and swan by its comparatively small size, short neck, and legs, its somewhat flattened body, which help it from being seen by hunters on a trip for this game bird, and the sexes usually have a different plumage. In common with them, and with the flamingo, it has transverse, tooth-like ridges, called lamellae, just inside the edges of the bill, for straining edible matter from mud or water. The numerous species of duck occur throughout the world on fresh or salt waters and on many small oceanic islands.

Wild Ducks: The American Ornithologists’ Union places the wild ducks in two subfamilies and six tribes. {A tribe is a category of classification just below subfamily and above genus.} The subfamily Anserinae includes one tribe of ducks, Dendrocygnini. These are the tree ducks, most nearly related to the geese. The remainder of the ducks is grouped in the subfamily Anatinae {ducks, or true ducks}, which includes five tribes. These are Tadornini, the shelducks; Cairinini, the Muscovy ducks and allies {closely related species}; Anatini, the dabbling ducks; Aythyini, the pochards and allies; and Mergini, the eiders, scoters, mergansers, and allies. The Anatini are particularly well known because they are surface-feeding ducks that mainly inhabit bodies of fresh water. They feed in the shallows by tipping with the head and foreparts in the water and the tail in the air. They include the mallard, black duck, baldpate, gadwall, pintail, teal, wigeon, shoveler, wood duck, and mandarin.

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The mallard duck and the teal duck are water fowl game birds very popular in Alaska and are advertised by most outfitters and guides in the state. Also well known are the Aythyini, or diving ducks, which include those species that inhabit fresh or brackish waters and regularly dive or swim underwater for food or protection. These include the redhead, canvasback, scaup, pochard, and others.

Hunting-Trips-R-Us have listed this information on duck hunting and habits of the duck for our visitors. We hope that it helps you plan out a great guided duck trip to Alaska and also helps you find the right outfitter or guide that offers the most for your needs. Try and remember that duck hunts including the most popular Mallard and Teal can be a trip of a lifetime if you are planning it out with the right equipment. Make out a list to help you take all the require supplies that you will need on a duck hunt and the Alaska guides and outfitters should be able to help in the planning of duck hunts of all types for that waterfowl game bird.