Wild ducks may roam free all over the world, but their domesticated counterparts will never fly away from their caretakers for a key scientific reason.

If you have never seen a male wood duck, you are missing one of God’s most beautiful creations. Both sexes share a crested head. The males (drakes) are a rainbow of colors blending together in a ...

As exotic as the wood duck may seem, it is a common bird in our parts. But it wasn’t always so. During the Wild West days of unregulated market hunting, the bird’s fate appeared much grimmer.

Wood ducks nest seasonally in forested areas across North America from coast to coast in southern Canada and the northern tier of states. From southern British Columbia, a narrow strip of breeding ...

At first light, six wood ducks decoyed to its flashing wings - gray on one side and white on the other. Surprised that every time the wings stopped spinning the wood ducks would leave, ...

Waterfowl, a general description for ducks, can be challenging to identify in flight. Mastering this ability provides satisfaction and pleasure for bird watchers and is a necessity and requirement for ...

One of North America’s most beautiful birds is the wood duck. The male, with its exotic coloring and looking as if it just flew out of an ancient Japanese silk screen, is a duck of unparalleled ...

Wood ducks, or Aix sponsa, the scientific name, have become more common on the prairie of North Dakota than they were just a few decades ago.

Duck breeding season in the southern United States typically begins by February, at the same time that legal duck hunting ends. This came as a relief to my neighbor’s 9-year-old ...

An interspecies pair of Wood and Mallard ducks are finding love in Central Park, according to David Barrett of the Manhattan Bird Alert. These lovers come from different sides of the quacks.