For now, the ruddy duck will continue to live its double life—loved on one side of the Atlantic and hated on the other. Budd Titlow is a professional wetland scientist and wildlife biologist and ...

In this heartwarming video, a mother Ruddy Duck is seen with her adorable little ducklings as they swim together. The sight of the tiny ducklings learning to navigate the water under their mother ...

A male ruddy duck in Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Adam Grimm, USFWS) Every spring, millions of ducks touch down on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a spread of muskeg and ...

Ruddy outrage! How lusty British ducks are being culled at a cost of £2,000 each to please the Spanish. By STEPHEN MOSS . Published: 20:54 EDT, 1 April 2012 | Updated: 08:11 EDT, 2 April 2012 ...

The ducks’ downfall has been their fondness for breeding with an endangered Spanish species, the white-headed duck. Twenty years ago, British ruddies began arriving in northern Spain, where they ...

THE controversial cull of a colony of Ruddy Ducks has started.More than 100 ducks which live on flashes owned by Wigan Council are to be slaughtered at the request of the Spanish government.

The birds usually migrate to Spain in the winter and have been mating with rare white-headed ducks. Specialist marksmen from Defra carried out the cull. Ducks escaped. A nationwide cull of ruddy ducks ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Kate Humble presents the ruddy duck. Ruddy ducks are natives of North America. In the ...

A cull of ruddy ducks in the UK has cut their numbers to just 120. The government says about 4,400 of the birds were shot dead over the past five years.