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 ...

Alena Naiden, [email protected] Jun 20, 2021 Jun 20, 2021 On a hot Wednesday morning, a group enters the sunlit grove searching for birds. Tucked away amid the dense layer of trees, wooden boxes ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima Area Greenway walkers in winter often hear a distinctive whistling sound coming from a duck flying over the icy waters of the Yakima River. This sound comes from the wingbeats ...

Intraspecific nest parasitism, in which parasitic females lay eggs in the nests of host females of the same species, occurs in many birds and certain insects. Most known cases concern waterfowl ...

Question: There are large bird houses on the shores of the lake I fish. Are these wood duck houses, and do they really help the duck population? Answer: They are probably wood duck nesting boxes, and ...

As other ducks boisterously announce their presence quacking, whistling, and peeping in the small, forested lakes and ponds of northwestern United States, Canada, and Iceland, the handsome black and ...

Ducks commonly capture the public attention when a female chooses a nest site next to a fast-food drive-through window, when an outsized gathering of them causes a contamination of a public park or ...

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 ...