One of the most colorful birds at Wildlife Recovery Association's Little Swamp Sanctuary is the wood duck. Wood ducks stand out from other duck species in a couple ways. These ducks never quack.

Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

All diehard duck hunters have their favorite species, and they’ll usually rank them something like this: greenheads, canvasbacks, and pintails. But living and hunting in the northern half of the ...

Wood ducks nest seasonally in forested areas across North America from coast to coast in southern Canada and the northern tier of states. From southern British Columbia, a narrow strip of breeding ...

One of our favorite birds will soon be returning to North Iowa. That is the darling little duck of both trees and water, the wood duck. The drake of this marvelous species is perhaps the most ...

Wood ducks are known to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds — an act known as brood parasitism Earlier this month, wildlife artist and photographer Laurie Wolf peeped some exciting activity in ...

I am a potholing duck hunter at heart. My duck hunting muses reach their happiest when I’m walking by starlight down some prairie two-track, across a hayfield or cow pasture, or through the timber ...

On May 30, as I was driving down La Crosse Street, I happened to notice a mother wood duck leading one lone duckling across the street. She was heading toward the marsh. She made it across, only to be ...