The late Don "Duckman" Helmeke left many waterfowling legacies, not least the wood duck nesting box he designed that lives on through the Minnesota Waterfowl Association. Recently, I picked up a ...

It's not too late to put up wood duck houses to help provide safe nesting spots this spring for what some observers argue is the state's prettiest winged fowl. The Minnesota Waterfowl Association ...

In honor of Earth Month—and Earth Day later this week—we’re celebrating the best way we know how: with a series of stories that are all about getting outside and getting your hands dirty to benefit ...

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 ...

HORICON - On the surface, wood duck houses don't look like typical gift boxes. They're just a few pieces of wood cobbled together to form a rectangular structure, including a roof and a baseball-sized ...

McLean Nature Preserve will host a Wood Duck program at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, at McLean Nature Preserve, 2199 N. Flajole Road in Rhodes, about a quarter mile north of Erickson Road in ...

A male wood duck is a startling sight, resplendent in a rainbow palette artfully patched together. The bird verges on gaudy but is too elegant to merit any descriptor that hints at tastelessness. It’s ...

Looks like critters other than wood ducks won the latest battle over wood duck nesting box rentals at False Cape State Park last season. On a rainy Saturday, volunteers from Back Bay Restoration ...

If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn’t be wrong. They’re beauties, they just are. A recent tweet, not a quack, announced that a few of these birds had ...

If you travel to remote ponds in New Hampshire you may see a small colorful bird that was once threatened with extinction.The wood duck loves to find remote ponds where they will breed and raise ...