![]() ![]() ![]() Comparatively speaking, the difference in shooting wood ducks and mallards is like trying to down hummingbirds and sea gulls.Ĭlark Purvis of Hobgood, a tiny hamlet in the southeastern corner of Halifax County, has been guiding duck and goose hunters for 20 years - since he was 19. Simply put, shotgunners hit air most of the time when shooting at woodies, because they’re relatively small and extremely fast fliers - think about trying to hit a dove coming through a living room with only a night light glowing. Like Canada geese, North Carolina has two populations of wood ducks - those that live here year-round and those that migrate in from the north each fall.Īlthough they’ve ranked second to for years in Atlantic Flyway harvest numbers to mallards, more wood ducks may live in this state because they fly almost exclusively at the crack of dawn and sunset, on the fringes of legal shooting hours, and they’re extremely difficult to hit. In fact, woodies may outnumber any other species, a good reason they are often called the “Carolina” duck. With its iridescent green, black and white crested head, black eyes centered inside fiery red circles, an orange-yellow bill dipped in black, mottled-in-white and rust-colored nest feathers, white underbelly, black back and wing feathers outlined in streaks of white, the male woodie has little competition from other species when it comes to making a fashion statement.įortunately, North Carolina hunters have no problems finding wood ducks they live in every county from Dare to Cherokee. ![]()
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