James Hautman, of Chaska, Minnesota, won the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an acrylic painting of three buffleheads. The announcement was made at the conclusion of the end of two days of judging during an in-person and via livestream event September 19, 2025 at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland. Hautman’s artwork will be made into the 2026-2027 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or duck stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2026.