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 ...

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Wood ducks are doing well in Arkansas and much of the credit goes to humans, especially the many who have put up nesting boxes. Woodies readily take to the boxes if they’re the ...

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 iridescent head crest colored with ...

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 ...

Building and erecting wood duck nesting boxes is a great project for late winter and early spring. Nesting habitat for the wood duck, which usually nest in tree cavities near wetlands rather than on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unseasonably warm February weather fast tracked the spring duck migration in North Iowa, and I had yet to put out the wood duck welcome mat. Time to bedden those boxes. While many species pass through ...