MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — December marks Georgia’s hunting season for various game animals, including ducks. While hunters gear up for the season, state wildlife agencies are busy preparing habitats for ...

I got the great idea last fall to build a wood duck box for a friend’s ranch. Well, you know how that went, one became four and then eight on three different lakes. I was replacing some boxes that had ...

The wood duck breeding season at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve was considered a “moderate success despite receding water levels, according to a new study done by Harnawaz Boparai and provided to the ...

The mallard hen exploded from the thick grass, startling the bejesus out of an unsuspecting reporter who came to his senses just in time to see the clutch of eggs concealed at his feet. The encounter ...

Mallards now nest from marshes to puddles — and even swimming pools — while banding data offers a window into their lives, ...

Wood duck hens are starting to nest in the Tri-Cities area and are ready for their closeups. The Richland Rod and Gun Club has about 450 nest boxes in the Tri-Cities, Wash., area, some of them made by ...

The whistling sound of beating wings moves through the forest as a common goldeneye duck lands in a nest box mounted to the side of a tree near the Moose Creek Dam in North Pole, Alaska. Focused on ...

REXBURG — While watching hooded mergansers and mallards feeding on a canal near Rexburg on Tuesday evening, I counted 14 wood ducks flying in to join their feeding friends just before dark. The next ...