The bright sunshine of spring highlights the spectrum of birds in their mating plumage. The most striking in our area has to be the wood duck, a bird with colors that dazzle and a choice for nest ...

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 -- ...

Anyone who's seen them knows how stunning wood ducks are. The male's iridescent green and purple head, white stripes, red eyes and deep reddish-brown chest have even led some to proclaim that the wood ...

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 ...

A woman was questioning her sanity after spotting a duck perched in a tree several metres off the ground while going for a walk through Queensland bushland last week. “Shocked” by what she believed ...

JUPITER FARMS, Fla. — Wildlife artist Laurie Wolf captured an unusual image this week. An owl and a duckling side-by-side peering out from a hole in a what appears to be a tree, but she describes as a ...

The Rocky River Nature Center, 24000 Valley Parkway in North Olmsted, recently added an oversized sculpture of a male wood duck to its natural play space. The sculpture was built by the park’s ...

David Watkins doesn't consider himself much of a duck hunter. He's taken two before, and would be OK if he never took another. But after seeing a few wood ducks fly near his property in York County, ...

After hiking up the valley to visit his mother on the family’s land near Muscoda on March 31, Al Cornell glanced out a window and spotted a male wood duck perched in a tree about 100 feet away. The ...

A final decision has been signed for the Wood Duck Project in the Townsend Ranger District of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. “The Wood Duck Project utilizes active forest management ...

I spent a lot of years chasing poachers and outlaws during my career as a duck cop. And during that time I developed a gigantic love for all waterfowl. I was a pushover for the Canada goose, ...