Few birds, in Ohio or anywhere else, can rival the drake wood duck for sheer gaudiness. It’s as if a team of great artists was commissioned to design and color the fowl. Rodin sculpted the graceful ...

For a female wood duck, nesting is a dangerous endeavor. Competition for natural cavities is keen; squirrels, starlings and others destroy many nests. Raccoons are an even bigger threat, blocking nest ...

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 ...

Q: Well, it happened again. I have a wood duck nesting box near a pond, at the end of my property, and I saw a wood duck coming and going. But for the 10 th year in a row I missed the day the ...

Jean-François Giroux is a director of the Société Duvetnor, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the islands of the Lower St. Lawrence and to public education through an ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ EagleCam is finally capturing eggs on video — just not the kind viewers were expecting. In a sudden twist, a female mallard duck has decided to move into ...