James Hautman has established a duck dynasty.

Hautman, an artist from Chaska, a Twin Cities suburb, is the winner of the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a news release .

But it's not the first time he has won the contest – or the second or third time, either. It's his seventh time.

His artwork for this year's contest, an acrylic painting of three buffleheads , will be made into the 2026-27 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or Duck Stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2026, the news release says.

Every year, the sale of the stamp raises about $40 million to support conservation of wetland habitats in the National Wildlife Refuge System .

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