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What species of duck do y'all like the most? (not taste, but just favorite ducks)
Top 5.
For me:
#1. Canvasback
#2. Wigeon
#3. Wood duck
#4. Sprigs
#5. Green Wing Teal

Bufflehead.

assateague wrote:Bufflehead.

You like bufflehead so much they take up all top 5 species?

1. Wigeon
2. Pintail
3. Wood duck
4. Mallard
5. Lesser Scaup

Whatever is flying when I'm in the blind.

ducks~n~bucks wrote:

assateague wrote:Bufflehead.

You like bufflehead so much they take up all top 5 species?

Yes.

3legged_lab wrote:Whatever is flying when I'm in the blind.

X2 - except Buffleheads. Pretty ducks, but I hate those little bastards.

This is my favorite duck.
His name was Tasty. Raised him from an egg.
Then shot and stuffed him. He was a good duck.
Tasty tasted so good I cried while eating him.
Waaaaaas, Tasty, nom nom, waaaaa, could you pass me the rice, waaaaa, nom nom nom....and so on.

King Eider
Harlequin
Mandarin
Wood Duck
Oldsquaw

3legged_lab wrote:Whatever is flying when I'm in the blind.

True dat.

aunt betty wrote:This is my favorite duck.
His name was Tasty. Raised him from an egg.
Then shot and stuffed him. He was a good duck.
Tasty tasted so good I cried while eating him.
Waaaaaas, Tasty, nom nom, waaaaa, could you pass me the rice, waaaaa, nom nom nom....and so on.

Pintail
Wigeon
Mallards
Scoter
Teal


In that order. Jehler, those Scoter were awesome and I loved shooting them.

Pintail
Teal
Wigeon
Wood duck
Spoony

I won't name ducks I've never shot. There's too many purty birds out there.

My tops are gadwall, sprig, canvasback, widgeon and good ole fashioned mallards

ducks~n~bucks wrote:What species of duck do y'all like the most?

Depends.

To see: bluewing teal, harbingers of the coming season.

To shoot: greenwings, neatest evasive moves out there.

To fool: local mottleds, most well schooled birds we see.

To impress my guests: mallards, nothing makes me look more like I know what I'm doing.

To eat: fulvous or blackbellied whistling ducks, finest flavored wild duck I've had.

But I love 'em all. (Except when I'm hating those mottleds for blowing me off and taking tamer game with them.)

(1) Golden Eye - the sound is awesome, probably the most cautious/hardest to fool - but when they decide to come in, they come with reckless abandon, wings whistling undeterred by the guns.
(2) Canvasback - few sights as cool as "The King" locked up and coming to the decoys.
(3) Old Squaw - Speed and agility, challenging bird to get the barrel in front of.
(4) Blue bill - nothing beats the sound of 50 bills making a turn at speed. I think they inspired the design of the modern fighter jet.
(5) Cotton Top - my favorite puddle duck. Haven't killed many of them. Just love the way they look.

You DO realize the Tasty story was complete bullshit? I stole it from The Simpson's when Homer ate Clampy.
I thought it was obvious.

1. Pintail-never shot a bull, but hopefully this season.
2. Woodie-nothin like sitting in a little beaver hole with woodies screaming in.
3. Mallard-just because
4. Gadwall-don't know why
5. Hoodie-tast like shit, but they are cool little birds.

aunt betty wrote:You DO realize the Tasty story was complete bullshit? I stole it from The Simpson's when Homer ate Clampy.
I thought it was obvious.

I think that's why he laughed...just saying.

1.Ringer....I'd put a Ringers acrobatics up against ANY duck
2 Pintail..Love watching them lock up from a mile high
3 Wigeon..Love to see them pitch
4 Woodies..Hearing them calling before light is a rush
5 Redheads..Big bird,strong flyer..love seeing large rafts of them

1. Green Wing Teal - When they come in early and sneak in on us
2. Blue Wing Teal - They are like super badass speedy doves.
3. Woodduck - They're pretty
4. Mallards - They talk back the most
5. Pintail - Duck that I had to work the hardest to get to commit last year

#1. Canvasback
#2. Mallard
#3. Wood duck
#4. Snow goose
#5. Canadians they are big and slow enough for me to shoot

1. Redhead- Because 90 % of the population winters in my backyard and they are very stupid.

2. Pintail- Because they are so beautiful and plentiful in my neck of the woods.

3. Widgeon- Because they often fly with Pintails and Redheads and usually cap out my limit.

4. Woodies- Because they are so beautiful and love to dive into out of the way honey holes.

5. Mallards- Because they are delicious and work a decoy spread before committing.

Honorable mention- Green wing/blue wing teal and gadwalls because the teal are so fun to hunt and the gadwalls are the first ducks that I hunted that got me into the sport. And any other legal waterfowl that happens to buzz my decoy spread.

one2many wrote:#1. Canvasback
#2. Mallard
#3. Wood duck
#4. Snow goose
#5. Canadians they are big and slow enough for me to shoot

Ummmm...I don't think #4 or #5 count as ducks

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

one2many wrote:#1. Canvasback
#2. Mallard
#3. Wood duck
#4. Snow goose
#5. Canadians they are big and slow enough for me to shoot

Ummmm...I don't think #4 or #5 count as ducks

you are right but i never play by the rules hell number five isnt even fowl

one2many wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

one2many wrote:#1. Canvasback
#2. Mallard
#3. Wood duck
#4. Snow goose
#5. Canadians they are big and slow enough for me to shoot

Ummmm...I don't think #4 or #5 count as ducks

you are right but i never play by the rules hell number five isnt even fowl

Dayum! You shoot real Canadians?!?

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

one2many wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

one2many wrote:#1. Canvasback
#2. Mallard
#3. Wood duck
#4. Snow goose
#5. Canadians they are big and slow enough for me to shoot

Ummmm...I don't think #4 or #5 count as ducks

you are right but i never play by the rules hell number five isnt even fowl

Dayum! You shoot real Canadians?!?

well french canadians

one2many wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

one2many wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

one2many wrote:#1. Canvasback
#2. Mallard
#3. Wood duck
#4. Snow goose
#5. Canadians they are big and slow enough for me to shoot

Ummmm...I don't think #4 or #5 count as ducks

you are right but i never play by the rules hell number five isnt even fowl

Dayum! You shoot real Canadians?!?

well french canadians

As you should!

Where I live we only have Canada Geese so we simply call them geese.
Down south they have zillions of snows and some specks so they say snows, specks, or canadians. Arkansas has some park geese but almost no migrating canadas.
Its funny cuz someone always says, "you mean geese, right?".