Last year's winner in the World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl category, "Livingstone's Turaco" by Thomas Horn. Ward Museum Last year's winner at the World ...

“Hard to tell this thing from a real crappie,” said my friend Dan Scherer, as we passed around the glistening decoy. “Except for we can’t clean and fry it.” In my hands, the crappie was solid, but its ...

The imitation waterfowl, made to resemble their living counterparts, have been used for centuries to lure birds from the sky to within shooting range for waiting hunters. The first decoys, made from ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Cooper Rossner has always loved birds, and wood carving. When he first heard of a way to combine the two, and bring in his love of history, he had to get in on it. Rossner, now ...

Until he carved his first decoys, Jerry Talton was, by his own description, a “wild-ass redneck surfer dude” from the North Carolina coast. His brother was actually the duck hunter, and one year, ...

Brainerd High School students completed a near sweep of junior division awards at the 2017 World's Largest Fish Decoy Show held April 22-23 in Perham. Ribbons and certificates were awarded to the Top ...