In the waterfowl world, Alabama’s most abundant species, the wood duck, is not known for migrating long distances. It turns out, the wood duck migration patterns follow a “boy meets girl” scenario.

Meanwhile, wood ducks forage through the common water hyacinth and native great egrets and great blue herons go about their day, often poised gracefully on logs for seemingly hours on end.

Duck numbers, which were once a bright spot, are now trending downward. Waterfowl numbers stand out in the report with general populations seeing a 24 percent increase since 1970. The report also ...

The new Three Ducks hotel in Westhampton (formerly the divey, 1950s Seabreeze Motel) is adding a brand new building, dubbed the Barn, which will serve as a reception area and gathering point.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A mallard duck rests on the edge of a path around the Tidal Basin as the sun rises in Washington, Sunday ...

It features pheasants, mallards, pintails, black ducks, wood ducks, and Hungarian partridges, showing their life stages and care—from egg incubation to feeding, raising, and eventual release ...

As a duck hunter, Bart Tegen, has put up wood duck boxes for years. “Just knowing that, in northern Wisconsin, we don't have a lot of migrating waterfowls, so we need to produce our own,” said Tegen.

A woman who "accidentally fell in love" with helping ducks built a giant home for them in her garden. Leanne Clarke first inherited a few with her new house when she moved to Horsford, near ...