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If such efforts to turn farmland into high-value marsh succeed, experts say paying farmers to give up soggy fields could help wetlands migrate and enhance habitat for species such as black ducks.

Suddenly, one eagle breaks away and swoops low over the Mongaup Falls Reservoir in New York, startling a flock of black ducks that darts into the shallows.

The hunting seasons for other ducks, including black ducks and pintails, ended earlier in the winter or fall.

Next up, we stopped at a giant flying black duck in the town of Black Duck.

“Any day now the black ducks come,” he said, “and the mallards. Then we will have good meat.”