{"podcast":{"title":"Duck Season Somewhere","slug":"duck-season-somewhere-360602","podcast_index_feed_id":360602,"rss_url":"https://getducks.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://getducks.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/1/4/0/114002cc12b3c93127a2322813b393ee/ECC220F9-26EB-486D-9765-118E9DDECAE0.jpeg","author":"Ramsey Russell","episode_count":701,"summary":"Your go-to for exploring authentic duck hunting adventures WORLDWIDE! For 365 days per year, it really is duck hunting season somewhere. Host Ramsey Russell founded GetDucks.com over 20 years ago, spending most of the year in duck blinds among 6 continents. Meeting with real waterfowl hunters, conservationists, biologists, and storytellers encountered throughout North America and around the globe, Ramsey shares a duck hunting world much bigger than our own backyards.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T20:20:30.204257+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/duck-season-somewhere-360602"},"episode":{"title":"EP 692. Where Are Deep South Ducks: Gone or Displaced?","slug":"ep-692-where-are-deep-south-ducks-gone-or-displaced","published_at":"2026-05-28T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/duck-season-somewhere-360602/ep-692-where-are-deep-south-ducks-gone-or-displaced","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/duck-season-somewhere-360602","url":"https://getducks.libsyn.com/ep-692-where-are-deep-south-ducks-gone-or-displaced","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/getducks/DSS_5_28_26_James_Calicut_Deep_South.mp3?dest-id=1782413","summary":"Every duck hunter in the Deep South is asking the same question: where are the mallards--heck, where are the ducks? Mississippi State waterfowl researcher James Calicut joins me for a grounded, honest conversation about what seems to be happening across the Lower Mississippi Valley. We discuss weather, habitat change, agriculture, hunting pressure, habitat loss and what hunters are seeing from the blinds these days. Importantly, he shares a few preliminary insights from a growing number GPS-marked mallards, pintails and gadwalls he's tracking to determine whether these species are gone or simply redistributed.","meta_description":"Every duck hunter in the Deep South is asking the same question: where are the mallards--heck, where are the ducks? Mississippi State waterfowl researcher…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5308,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/duck-season-somewhere-360602/episodes/ep-692-where-are-deep-south-ducks-gone-or-displaced/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/duck-season-somewhere-360602/ep-692-where-are-deep-south-ducks-gone-or-displaced.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}