Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you decide to build your own or purchase a duck boxes help address habitat loss for cavity-nesting duck species. Nic Bray, ...

The male wood duck is one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We’re lucky we can see them almost any day of the week, any time of the year, in Kathryn Albertson Park. They love to hang out under the ...

Mandarin ducks belong to the genus Aix, alongside the American wood duck. They're both hole-nesting ducks with brightly colored males. But perhaps most surprisingly for ducks, they have claws. The ...

HORICON – On this mid-February day, Horicon Marsh was locked in ice and covered with snow. Not a bird or mammal stirred in sight. But the conditions were perfect to open some of the marsh's secrets.

Once nearly wiped out by overhunting and logging, nest boxes kept wood ducks from vanishing – and volunteers are still ...

Wood ducks are a common sight on Louisiana waterways during winter and spring; however, they were not always so common. According to The TECHE Project in the early 1900s, the wood duck population was ...

Sometimes we forget — or I forget — just how cool wood ducks are. Now that deer seasons are all but over, I’ve been spending some time thinking about these brilliantly colored, smallish native ducks.

So, my friends, we might take courage from the Wood Duck, ruffle our feathers, and leap! Not expecting to fly right away, but realizing that the fall can be every bit as majestic.

The rise of the North American Wood Duck is a modern wildlife success story. These beautiful waterfowl were brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to outdoorsmen. Wildlife Forever reminds ...

And then there were three: three half-grown wood ducks, survivors from a hatch of 25 eggs. The hen began motherhood with a flotilla of ducklings swimming behind her. Prior to nesting season, we had ...