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 ...

All diehard duck hunters have their favorite species, and they’ll usually rank them something like this: greenheads, canvasbacks, and pintails. But living and hunting in the northern half of the ...

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, ...

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 ...