Montana artist Chuck Black won the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp art contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. His tight rendition of a pintail drake on the water of a marsh topped 198 other ...

Graceful flyers with a distinctive, slender silhouette and a cautious manner, northern pintail ducks are seen in all 50 states. Early breeders and early migrants, they breed as far north as Alaska and ...

It was a chance encounter with a northern pintail drake that made Chuck Black's lifelong dream come true. That dream: to win the Federal Duck Stamp art contest and have his painting in the pocket of ...

These are the moments nature photographers hope for. Every once in a great while you come across a bird you really want to photograph and the subject is extraordinarily brave, cooperative and within ...