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FowlWeather Podcast
by FowlWeather
The forecast to your next successful hunt. Science-based forecasting built for the hunt.Follow us on Spotify, Apple, Youtube & VimeoFowlWeather.coListen on Apple PodcastsFowlWeather YoutubeFowlWeather Vimeo
Episodes
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Ep. 149 – Are We Shooting Too Many Ducks?
Today we tackle the most common question that we get from our good friends across duck country. Are we shooting too many ducks? We talk about how BPOP and harvest numbers don’t seem to add up, and we go through the available science about population dynamics and the role of harvest, all in easy…
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Ep. 148 – Waterfowl Wednesdays Part 1 – Travels of the Tundra Swan
The big white birds from the north, Tundra Swans are the harbinger of winter in Jacks Reef country, they migrate late, right on the snow line and tell us that winter is coming. Learn more about these big white birds in Part 1 of Waterfowl Wednesday.
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Ep. 147 – Chris Beckman and All About Waiting on Water
We welcome back Chris Beckman of Beckman Game Calls this week, talk about the frustration of waiting on water, and your weekly duck migration forecast. Hint colder air on the way! All this week on the FowlWeather Podcast.
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Ep. 146 – First Weekly Duck Migration Forecast, Plus What’s El Nino Got To Do With Harvest?
The long awaited first weekly duck migration forecast, a weather severity index recap, plus we dig deep into how El Nino does or does not affect your duck hunting. All today and more on the FowlWeather Podcast.
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Ep. 145 – The Blind Leading the (Duck) Blind – PART 2 – Defending yourself against the same old fake news
Last episode we detailed the 4 types ducks hunters, the Homers, the Haters, the Conformists, and the Skeptics. Today we jump into defending yourself against the same old fake news, hen harvest matters, we can’t do anything about habitat, we can’t do anything about the weather, and the problem is...
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Ep. 144 – The Blind Leading the (Duck) Blind – PART 1 – How we talk ducks
In a social context there are 4 types of duck hunters, which one are you? Do you believe everything you hear, the true Homer Duck Hunter (Homer Syndrome), are you at the other end of the spectrum as a Hater (Hater Syndrome), or do you fall in between, either just needing information to fit your...
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Ep. 143 – BONUS EPISODE: BPOP INITIAL REACTION
The numbers are in and we have the initial reaction of DrMike coming at you today. What species are up, what species are down and where did it all go down. DrMikebreaks down the numbers with his initial reactions to the 2026 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey. What does it mean for...
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Ep. 142 – Duck Conservation is Driven by Science
Is anti-science the new norm? With all the ongoing anti-science chatter, we have definitely emboldened the conspiracy theorists. That has certainly bled over into the duck world. But we also just saw the conservation community come together and support science when the ducks are really in…
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Ep. 141 – Effects of Ag Markets on Duck Habitat w/ Dr. Mark McConnell
Agriculture is the number one reason for wetland and grassland loss in North America, but it is also a necessity, feeding the planet is a necessity and farm policy also plays a huge role in keeping duck habitat and the ducks with us. Today we visit with Dr. Mark McConnell of Mississippi State...
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SPECIAL ALERT – ARE THE DUCKS DONE FOR? w/ special guests Dr. Scott Stephens and Dr. Mike Brasher
My friends across duck country, I ask you one question, are the duck done for? Are you willing to let duck populations fade into oblivion. We talk about the weather and how it affects duck migration a-lot on the FowlWeather Podcast, but we know one thing for sure, if ducks are never produced, it...
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Ep. 139 – The Coming Duck Season Through 3 Lenses, Why To Be Curious, Why To Be Concerned, and Why To Be Excited
In this episode we are going to talk to you through 3 lenses, why you should be curious, why you should be concerned, and why you should be excited about the coming duck season. Among the general themes you will hear about breeding ground conditions, the coming El Nino, policy surrounding…
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Ep. 138 – Montana Grassland & Wetland Coordinator – Heather Harris
Montana is a destination for many, but it doesn’t run on its own. Heather Harris is the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks as Grassland & Wetland Coordinator for the state. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Trent University, that’s in Canada, and her M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries...
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Ep. 137 – Saving Chesapeake Bay: The Birthplace of American Waterfowling
Chesapeake Bay is the birthplace of American waterfowling. The bounty…the abundant fish, shellfish, and waterfowl made being a waterman a reality, but the bounty of the bay and its watershed, also made it a place to live and thrive. As populations grew in the Chesapeake watershed so did the...
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Ep. 136 – Toad Harbor Taxidermy w/ Matt Colesante
Situated just off the North Shore of Oneida Lake sits Toad Harbor Taxidermy. We meet with avid duck hunter and taxidermist Matt Colesante. Matt focuses on realism in his mounts, separating his great mounts from just good mounts of others. We sit down w/ Matt, his father Rip, and son Connor, 3...
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Ep. 135 – Godzilla El Niño Cometh?
Some are calling it a Godzilla El Niño, a Super El Niño of monster proportions, but will it all unfold as told? In 2015, NASA scientists coined the informal term Godzilla El Niño to describe a weather pattern that massively distorts the jet stream and causes extreme global temperatures. DrMike...
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Ep. 134 – East Coast Accomplishments w/ Ed Farley of North Carolina - Esse Quam Videri
Coastal North Carolina is rich in waterfowling history and Ed Farley, hailing from the Matamuskeet region exemplifies the NC state motto Esse Quam Videri, the motto in Latin reads as genuine, honest, and disciplined, rather than just appearing to be so. Ed Farley, Manager of Conservation Programs...
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Ep. 133 – Minnesota’s Living Lakes Program – Jake Chronister – Bring Back the Ducks
Minnesota has seen substantial challenges in keeping wetlands and grass on the landscape for ducks. With this, duck numbers and duck hunter numbers have plummeted. The Living Lake Initiative restores and protects wetlands and shallow lakes in Minnesota and Iowa, focusing on enhancing water…
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Ep. 132 – Time to Talk Turkey Tactics
Time to talk turkey tactics. Like duck hunting the calling, the interaction with the bird is what makes turkey hunting more than just shooting. Today, with turkey season closing in the south, going at mid-latitudes, and still yet to open in many places in the north, DrMike talks turkey killin’...
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Ep. 131 – The Do's and Don'ts of Waterfowl Habitat Management
Mistakes are easy to make, but with lessons learned Ryan DuLaney brings a wealth of information to the FowlWeather Podcast. What are the most common mistakes in waterfowl habitat management and what are the easiest wins to get ducks in front of your blind. With diverse experience managing private...
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Ep. 130 – John Devney – An SOS or SONWR – Save Our National Wildlife Refuges
Policy wizard, John Devney of Delta Waterfowl joins the FowlWeather Podcast for a review of financial woes of our USFWS National Wildlife Refuge system. He defined delayed infrastructure and why our refuges aren’t keeping up. What can be done? Not much if you don’t have funds to keep up with...
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Ep. 129 – What’s Habitat Got To Do With It? Everything!
With ducks moving back north it is time to start thinking about habitat and habitat management for the coming growing season. DrMike hits the hot button habitat decision-matrix for the coming season. What conditions to create? What foods to grow? and how it all goes down on public v. private…
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Ep. 128 – Dr. Scott Stephens – Ducks Unlimited
We meet with Dr. Scott Stephens, Senior Director of Conservation Strategies with Ducks Unlimited. A staunch advocate for wetlands conservation, Scott details the accomplishments made and the challenges ahead to helping sustain ducks and duck habitat across duck country in the USA and Canada. A...
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Ep. 127 – Duck Season 25-26 Recap: The season of the storm, the corn, and for some, the duck season that never happened
For some it was the season of the storm, for others the best season they can remember, others the worst season ever, the winter that has not yet happened. The 3rd year of the FowlWeather Podcast brought us a welcome calming of the fake news by other podcasts, drought but ducks for many, and the...
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Ep. 126 – Chris Beckman and Forrest Carvajal Solve the Duck World’s Problems
In the boot room of camp, Chris Beckman (Beckman Game Calls) and Forrest Carvajal (Pond Creek Duck Calls) talk finding honey holes, social media monsters and heros, BPOP changes, weather, flooded corn, and more, plus your last duck migration forecast of the season – did the ducks move? Find out,...
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Ep. 125 – SPECIAL EDITION: WINTER STORM FERN
Winter storm Fern bears down on duck country USA and the FowlWeather Podcast team is here with a Special Edition: Weather Alert episode to help your hunt through the storm. Will it makes duck migrate farther south or just a big Duck Shuffle? Will the cold break before the end of January? Who gets...
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Ep. 124 – Hatchie Coon Hunting and Fishing Club
The FowlWeather Podcast team travels to Arkansas to hunt with Chris Beckman of Beckman Game Calls. Hatchie Coon is a hunt club with history. A sit-down w DrMikeand Chris Beckman at Hatchie Coon Hunting and Fishing Club drills deep down into what makes duck country USA the place to be. There is…
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Ep. 123 – Senator John Kennedy’s Corn Letter to USFWS
Well-intentioned but missing the mark, we dissect Senator John Kennedy’s Corn Letter to the USFWS. That, a thank you to the FowlWeather Podcast listenership, and your duck migration forecast, all this week on the FowlWeather Podcast.
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Ep. 122 – Kitchen Conversations: Merg Squad 3.0 Part 2
Join us in Part 2, of Merg Squad 3.0, Bard, Frack and DrMike are joined by deer enthusiast (and duck hunter) Jack...roast duck, goose sausage, and bourbon fueled conversation...maybe more deer than ducks, but always great conversation with good friends.
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Ep. 121 – The Corn Episode Part 2.2
The Corn Episode Part 2.2 digs deep into the legalities of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and what constitutes baiting when hunting migratory birds with Mike Oropallo lawyer and Partner with Barclay Damon LLP.
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Ep. 120 – Kitchen Conversations: Merg Squad 3.0 Part 1
We couldn’t do a season without getting together with the Merg Squad. A long, long time ago, just like that movie – in Part 1of Merg Squad 3.0. Bard, Frack, Jack, and DrMike dig into the 2025 drought and ducks, a good “merg” year, but an odd weather year…and snow goose harvest and management.
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Ep. 119 – The Corn Episode Part 2.1
The Corn Episode Part 2.1 is another exploration into the role of corn in the world of ducks. Joined by Heath Hagy we dig into a pile of corn lingo, habitat management, and what corn means on the landscape for ducks.
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Ep. 118 – The Winter Solstice Episode: Does Reverse Migration Exist?
The darkest days of the year. Does reverse migration exist?, DrMike says nope. Listen in to get the skinny on the science. That and your migration forecast for the week, all today on the FowlWeather Podcast.
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Ep. 117 – Walt Rhodes of ShotSweeper:After the Hunt Make The Next Bite Safer
Walt Rhodes joins the FowlWeather Podcast with his invention – ShotSweeper – after the hunt make the next bite safer. An innovative tool that detects non-toxic shot in meat. The first tool to detect non-toxic shot in gamebirds. Everyone has been there, don’t make another trip to the dentist after...
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Ep. 116 – Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Works For The Ducks
The TRCP mission is to guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt and fish. Haven’t heard of them? Well you will today, from habitat work in the lower Mississippi Valley, to the pothole country where our ducks are raised, to helping provide greater access to hunters and anglers, TRCP’s…
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Ep. 115 – Explaining the Mid-Season Lull
The mid-season lull in duck action is a known problem and common conversation across duck country USA. What causes it? And how to combat the lull. That, a Kitchen Conversation teaser with the Merg Squad and our exclusive migration forecast, all today on the FowlWeather Podcast.
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Ep. 114 – Say It Ain’t Snow
The COLD is coming and the FowlWeather Podcast team dives into the numbers to review how snow and ice cover have changed throughout the flyways. We also have MALLARDS ON THE MOVE, where will they peak this week. Also our migration forecast, and some listener Q &A, all today on the FowlWeather...
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Ep. 113 – The HAY is IN the BARN: The 2nd Long-Term Migration Forecast
The Polar Vortex is primed to unleash the coldest we’ve seen in decades during November and December, but will it all come to be? The atmosphere is primed and DrMike details the howling winds, squalls, Alberta Clippers, noreaster’s, the Jacks Reef Lake Effect, and all that makes ducks move south....
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Ep. 112 – FowlWeather MIGRATION ALERT!
FowlWeather MIGRATION ALERT…we do not report ducks that have already shown up, we predict migration and provide FowlWeather MIGRATION ALERTS. MIGRATION ALERTS before that migration has even happened. This week, we also cover photoperiod vs. weather duck migration, how ducks are not bucks, and so...
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Ep. 111 – Our First Long-Term Weather Severity Forecast of the Year
What will this fall and winter season bring? Will it be ducky? Or are we in another lull until January, find out today in the first of two Long-term Weather Severity Forecasts! DrMike digs deep into data that predicts or winter weather, that and your weekly duck migration forecast.
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Ep. 110 – The West is the Best: Washington State, Barker Ranch w/ Nick Hoffard
Nick Hoffard is the General Manager of The Barker Ranch. A world class 2,000+ acre duck hunting club located in West Richland in Washington State. Tasked with wetland and hunt management of the ranch, Nick brings a wealth of expertise to the discussion w DrMike, today on the FowlWeather Podcast....
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Ep. 109 – Forrest Carvajal: From Beginner to Competition Calling
Public lands duck hunter, call maker, competition caller, and host of the Off The X podcast, we are joined by Forrest Carvajal. Learn what it takes to fool the ducks, but mostly, we talk ducks, duck hunting, and being positive about all that is duck country. That and your duck migration forecast,...
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Ep. 108 – Mixed Bag: Biologist Apathy, Drought Days, BBD, Corn Comment, and Declining Duck Hunters
Ducks don’t sit still and neither should you, do you need to chase them to the ends of the Earth?, goodness no, but when the time in right, strike and do it with strategy, do it with precision, do it the FowlWeather Podcast way. Hunt the ducks, hot from the north. But also sit some days out…
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Ep. 107 – Your 1st Duck Migration Forecast and WSI Reboot
The long awaited first duck migration forecast of the season, we also recap the Weather Severity Index and why it works so well, plus crop harvest is in full swing, will the dry continue in the east?, and some secrets to finding the duck honey hole, all today on the FowlWeather Podcast.
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Ep. 106 – Eat What You Grow Because You Grow What You Sow
Today we cover “Use what you shoot 101”, the hurricane season meltdown, an October duck weather forecast, busy, busy episode; nearly on the eve of the 1st of October Orion greets us and the dawn, winter is on its way. We tackle it all head-on in an age when waterfowl should be respected, revered,...
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Ep. 105 – The First Day of Fall
Released on the first day of Fall, hints of Fall weather in the air and, in this episode, DrMike breaks down the migration, harvest numbers across the country, keeping faith in duck hunting, and a high-pressure system dubbed The Death Ridge. Hurricane season remains quiet, teal seasons are here,...
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Ep. 104 – Talkin’ Ducks w/ Ramsey Russell
It is Duck Season Somewhere. We are joined by Ramsey Russell. Quickly becoming a story telling legend. We dive deep with Ramsey about his beginnings, his take on the status of duck hunting in North America, and what’s his next adventure. We cover the culture of duck hunting, 3 pintail limit, are...
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Ep. 103: Jacks Reef Life: A Country Boy Can Survive
Jacks Reef isn’t even an incorporated township, sitting along an old section of the Seneca River, now cut off by an addition to the Erie Canal and sitting in swamp country, USA, Jacks Reef is a long-gone entity from times past when mule drawn barges and brothels were the theme of the day.…
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Ep. 102 - BREAKING NEWS: BPOP Breakdown
The Waterfowl Status Report is out; later than normal but still in time for the flyway meetings. Did the FowlWeather Podcast predict it correctly?, was the Mallard BPOP estimate down 10%? and May Pond by another 15% this year? In this BONUS episode DrMike breaks down the BPOP. Are we in a...
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Ep. 101 – Your Cup of Tears: “Stop Saying Harvest Doesn’t Matter”
Harvest doesn’t matter, but it does. DrMike explains why harvest doesn’t matter, but also how it can and does for some species. 10 things you can do to save the ducks. We respond to your hate mail. We reflect on the past 2 years of the FowlWeather Podcast. We compare and contrast the North…
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Ep. 100 – Read Em’ and Weep: The Fall and Winter Weather for 2025 – 2026
Read em’ and Weep – Facts Matter. The FowlWeather Podcast: The forecast to your next successful hunt! What does the duck season for Fall and Winter 2025-2026 have in store for us? Will the ducks arrive on schedule like the good ole’ days or will it be another year of swatting mosquitoes and empty...
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