All Episodes

Ep. 142 – Duck Conservation is Driven by Science

Ep. 141 – Effects of Ag Markets on Duck Habitat w/ Dr. Mark McConnell

SPECIAL ALERT – ARE THE DUCKS DONE FOR? w/ special guests Dr. Scott Stephens and Dr. Mike Brasher

Ep. 139 – The Coming Duck Season Through 3 Lenses, Why To Be Curious, Why To Be Concerned, and Why To Be Excited

Ep. 138 – Montana Grassland & Wetland Coordinator – Heather Harris

Ep. 137 – Saving Chesapeake Bay: The Birthplace of American Waterfowling

Ep. 136 – Toad Harbor Taxidermy w/ Matt Colesante

Ep. 135 – Godzilla El Niño Cometh?

Ep. 134 – East Coast Accomplishments w/ Ed Farley of North Carolina - Esse Quam Videri

Ep. 133 – Minnesota’s Living Lakes Program – Jake Chronister – Bring Back the Ducks

Ep. 132 – Time to Talk Turkey Tactics

Ep. 131 – The Do's and Don'ts of Waterfowl Habitat Management

Ep. 130 – John Devney – An SOS or SONWR – Save Our National Wildlife Refuges

Ep. 129 – What’s Habitat Got To Do With It? Everything!

Ep. 128 – Dr. Scott Stephens – Ducks Unlimited

Ep. 127 – Duck Season 25-26 Recap: The season of the storm, the corn, and for some, the duck season that never happened

Ep. 126 – Chris Beckman and Forrest Carvajal Solve the Duck World’s Problems

Ep. 125 – SPECIAL EDITION: WINTER STORM FERN

Ep. 124 – Hatchie Coon Hunting and Fishing Club

Ep. 123 – Senator John Kennedy’s Corn Letter to USFWS

Ep. 122 – Kitchen Conversations: Merg Squad 3.0 Part 2

Ep. 121 – The Corn Episode Part 2.2

Ep. 120 – Kitchen Conversations: Merg Squad 3.0 Part 1

Ep. 119 – The Corn Episode Part 2.1

Ep. 118 – The Winter Solstice Episode: Does Reverse Migration Exist?

Ep. 117 – Walt Rhodes of ShotSweeper:After the Hunt Make The Next Bite Safer

Ep. 116 – Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Works For The Ducks

Ep. 115 – Explaining the Mid-Season Lull

Ep. 114 – Say It Ain’t Snow

Ep. 113 – The HAY is IN the BARN: The 2nd Long-Term Migration Forecast

Ep. 112 – FowlWeather MIGRATION ALERT!

Ep. 111 – Our First Long-Term Weather Severity Forecast of the Year

Ep. 110 – The West is the Best: Washington State, Barker Ranch w/ Nick Hoffard

Ep. 109 – Forrest Carvajal: From Beginner to Competition Calling

Ep. 108 – Mixed Bag: Biologist Apathy, Drought Days, BBD, Corn Comment, and Declining Duck Hunters

Ep. 107 – Your 1st Duck Migration Forecast and WSI Reboot

Ep. 106 – Eat What You Grow Because You Grow What You Sow

Ep. 105 – The First Day of Fall

Ep. 104 – Talkin’ Ducks w/ Ramsey Russell

Ep. 103: Jacks Reef Life: A Country Boy Can Survive

Ep. 102 - BREAKING NEWS: BPOP Breakdown

Ep. 101 – Your Cup of Tears: “Stop Saying Harvest Doesn’t Matter”

Ep. 100 – Read Em’ and Weep: The Fall and Winter Weather for 2025 – 2026

Ep. 99 – If it Sounds Like A Duck….w/ Chris Beckman of Beckman Game Calls

Ep. 98 – Ethan Dittmer in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 97 – Wetland Management Check-In w/ The Experts

Ep. 96 – Fake News All Over Again: Reward Bands, Flooded Corn, and What Makes a Duck Migrate

Ep. 95 – Dr. Matt Dyson in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 94 – Adaptive Harvest Management: From Smoke Filled Rooms and Strong Voices to Application of Sound-Science

Ep. 93 – The History of Duck Season Frameworks w/ Dr. Jim Dubovsky, retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Central Flyway Representative

Ep. 92 – Dr. Abby Blake-Bradshaw in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 91 – Tim Maron in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 90 – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- Why are Waterfowl Population Trends So Different Among Species?

Ep. 89 – Grant Rhodes in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 88 – Apples and Oranges: Why Breeding Waterfowl Surveys Don’t Equate to Mid-Winter Survey Data

Ep. 87 – Cory Highway in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 86 – Jewelry with a Jingle, Why Band Waterfowl? The 2025 DataStream series

Ep. 85 – Hannah Sabatier in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 84 – The Harvest Information Program - The 2025 DataStream series

Ep. 83 – Dr. Ryan Askren of Five Oaks in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 82 – Is the BPOP wrong? The 2025 DataStream series

Ep. 81 - Catrina Terry in The FowlWeather Podcast Young Waterfowl Professionals Series

Ep. 80 – BONUS EPISODE: Turkey Tag Out Tips and Why Are Turkeys Tanking?

Ep. 79 – The History of The Mallard in North America Part 4: DOMESTIC THIS! Game-Farm Mallards w/ Dr. Phil Lavretsky and Dominic Hockenbury

Ep. 78 – The History of The Mallard in North America Part 3: Instant Mallards, Just Add Water – The Ebb and Flow of Ole’ Greenhead

Ep. 77 – The History of The Mallard in North America Part 2: Mallard Ecology and Habitat Management for the Ole’ Greenhead

Ep. 76 – The History of The Mallard in North America Part 1: Greenheads Galore

Ep. 75 – La Niña What?: The Duck Season Recap

Ep. 74 – Burn It All Down Episode Part 1: The Mis Information Rhetoric About Waterfowl Management Must End

Ep. 73 – Where Are The Ducks?

Ep. 72 – Kitchen Conversations – Reverse Migration: Florida Boys Hunt New York – Part 2

Ep. 71 – Duck Country USA: Everybody Lies

Ep. 70 – Kitchen Conversations – Reverse Migration: Florida Boys Hunt New York – Part 1

Ep. 69 – With Ducktober Well Behind Us, Cometh The Cold (AND THE DUCKS)!

Ep. 68 – Kitchen Conversations – DrNick Masto and DrMike Debate Telemetry in a Truck Ride

Ep. 67 – Why Every State Needs A Draw Hunt For Ducks

Ep. 66 – A Christmas Warm Up? – Is Your Goose Cooked?

Ep. 65 – The Good Ole Days Are Now

Ep. 64 – The State of Duck Migration 2024 From The Experts

Ep. 63 – Kitchen Conversations – Revenge of the Merg Squad and Merganser Trivia

Ep. 62 – The Thanksgiving Fattening of Mr. and Mrs. Mallard

Ep. 61 – The Snow Line Advances South! + GTR Management (Why are they dry?!!!)

Ep. 60 – Public Draw Systems - Does Anyone Do It Right?

Ep. 59 – Ducks? What Ducks? Long-term Forecast Part 2

Ep. 58 – Moon Phases and Duck Movement + Duck Hunting Ethics

Ep. 57 – Kitchen Conversations – North Dakota Duck Camp and Waterfowl Trivia

Ep. 56 – Duck Senses Tingling: Duck Sight, Tactile, Hearing, and Taste Abilities.

Ep. 55 – The Long-Term Seasonal Forecast – Part 1

Episode 54 – Chris Nicolai, Scientist w/ Delta Waterfowl Talks Prairie Conditions

Ep. 53 – What’s so Great about Great Lakes Ducks?

Ep. 52 – Our First 2024 Duck Migration Forecast

Ep. 51 - When Do Ducks Start Migrating?, What Telemetry Doesn’t Tell Us, and A Ticking Time Bomb

Ep. 50 – We win when everybody eats

Ep. 49 – Got Rice? – Talkin’ Wild Rice with Northern Latitude

Ep. 48 – Faith the COLD will return

Ep. 47 – BONUS EPISODE: The BPOP Results

Ep. 46 – Hurricanes and Blue-wings: Stories about floods and fighter jets

Ep. 45 – Pre-Season Primer, Reading the Tea Leaves for Fall 2024 & Winter 2025 Weather. Will it be ducky?

Ep. 44 – Conserving the Canadian Prairies w/ John Devney – Chief Policy Officer for Delta Waterfowl Foundation

Ep. 43 – Frank Baldwin - Migratory Bird Biologist in Manitoba on Prairie Habitat Conditions

Ep. 42 – The Farm Bill w/ Julia Peebles, Ducks Unlimited Director of Agriculture and Sustainability Policy

EP. 41 - Sam Kucia - South Dakota Prairie Grassland and Wetland Condition Update

Ep. 40 - Paul Hess - Wildlife Biologist at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge

Ep. 39 – Counting Ducks at 200 Miles per Hour – Flying the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers with Josh Osborn of Forbes Biological Station Aerial Waterfowl Survey

Ep. 38 - If You Got Em’… You Shoot Em’ – Waterfowl Hunt Management on Private and Public Lands – The FowlWeather Podcast 2024 Wetland Management Series - Part 4

Ep. 37 – “Diversity is the Only Free Lunch” w/ Waterfowl Habitat Manager Ryan Dulaney of Wildlife Strategies and Land Agent with The Farmland Group – Wetland Mgmt Series Part 3

Ep. 36 – Why Manage Wetlands? Drawdown Timing And the Emergent Marsh Cycle – The FowlWeather Podcast - Wetland Management Series: Part 2

Ep. 35 – Ducks are Short! – The FowlWeather Podcast - Wetland Management Series: Part 1

Ep. 34 – Where have all the mallards gone?

Ep. 33 - The Kitchen Conversations – What makes a duck call sound like a duck? James Callicutt – Mississippi native, duck call maker, and waterfowl biologist teaches us how to sound like a duck

Ep. 32 Dr. Heath Hagy, The Waterfowl Guru Spills the Beans – Where were the ducks? Have the ducks figured us out?

Ep. 31 – Kitchen Conversations – Talking Ducks with Salt of the Earth – Chad Fisher in The Bootheel of Missouri

Ep. 30 – Kitchen Conversations – Delta Waterfowl’s University Hunt Program with Stephen Sowell – Ensuring the Future of Duck Hunting Through Well-Trained Hunter-Conservationist

Ep. 29 – Where were the ducks? the duck season recap

Ep. 28 – Kitchen Conversations – Talking mallard migration with Ben Luukkonen and Dr. Phil Lavretsky

Ep. 27 – THE CORN EPISODE

Ep. 26 – It’s a WRAP – Reflection of the 2023 – 2024 Duck Season

Ep. 25 – Hunting the thaw – where and when to hunt

Ep. 24 – Kitchen Conversations – Lake Erie Duck Action at Winous Pt. Marsh Conservancy

Ep. 23 – The big freeze, the flood gates open-eth?

Ep. 22 – Where are the Ducks – Part 2 – not fake news – separating feelings from facts

Ep. 21 – Kitchen Conversations – The Merg Squad Abides

Ep. 20 – Why EVERYONE should be a member of Ducks Unlimited

Ep. 19 – Where are the Ducks?

Ep. 18 – Why EVERYONE should be a member of Delta Waterfowl

Ep. 17 – The Art of Sky Busting

Ep. 16 – Don’t Burn the Roux

Ep. 15 – Has the Weather Changed for Mr. Mallard? Thoughts on Climate Change in the Age of Mallard Shooting

Ep. 14 – Golden Rule – F with the Decoys to Make the Ducks Fly

Ep. 13 – Ducks Run Guns

Ep. 12 – Seasonal Forecast – Part 2 - Ready or Not Here They Come?

Ep. 11 – The Ducks are at where they are at…and What Ducks Eat 101

Ep. 10 – Howling Winds and Howling Hunters

Ep. 9 – Hot Barrels High on the Prairie

Ep. 8 – BONUS EPISODE - Predicting the Grand Passage of Ducks

Ep. 7 – Where the Hell Is Jacks Reef?

Ep. 6 – A Tale of Two Migrations

Ep. 5 – In the grips of El Nino - Your Seasonal Forecast - Part 1

Ep. 4 – The Relentless Heat and Where the Ducks are Hot and Where They're Not

Ep. 3 – How We Make Seasonal Forecasts

Ep. 2 – I Make Gumbo

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