Roger Strand grew up as an avid duck hunter, but now it's April in place of October that is his favorite month of the year. He's been maintaining nesting boxes for wood ducks beginning with his first ...

A Bellingham lumber yard, Upton residents, duck hunters and conservationists from around the state teamed up recently to donate materials and build 320 wood duck nesting boxes. On Feb. 10, ...

Nesting boxes were an important factor in rebuilding wood duck numbers during the 20th century. (Steve Knight/Tyler Morning Telegraph) I got the great idea last fall to build a wood duck box for a ...

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 ...

Question: There are large bird houses on the shores of the lake I fish. Are these wood duck houses, and do they really help the duck population? Answer: They are probably wood duck nesting boxes, and ...

BRAINERD, MINN. — Minnesotans with eyes and ears toward the outdoors likely know about the recent passing of Don (Duckman) Helmeke. Duckman had a passion for waterfowl -- in particular wood ducks -- ...

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 ...

Old Man Winter has finally relaxed his grip on a landscape that's been frozen for, well, a long time. If that isn't enough good news, consider this: Tomorrow we will receive about four more minutes of ...

PINE GROVE – It’s no contest – the wood duck is Pennsylvania’s most brilliantly colored duck, with deep chestnut toned breast feathers, a vibrant yellow-orange beak and eye rings and its sleek ...

Biologists have discovered that overturned duck nest boxes can be death traps for wetland turtles. Ordinarily a good thing, duck nest boxes -- a nesting box attached to a pole in the wetland ground -- ...