Jim Abrams offers insight on one of his favorite jobs as a game protector for the Division of Wildlife: placing and maintaining wood duck nesting boxes.

This video shows how to create the right environment to facilitate duck nesting, egg laying, and incubation plus brooding in safety. <a href="http://www ...

Individuals will often return to the same or a nearby nesting site annually, as do their offspring. While the boxes are built for wood ducks, they might also be used by hood mergansers or ...

Individuals will often return to the same or a nearby nesting site annually, as do their offspring. While the boxes are built for wood ducks, they might also be used by hood mergansers or black ...

My mother once cooked a marvelous duck a l’orange and, although it was a lifetime ago when she was single and living in New York City, she still talks about it. The dish, though I’ve never ...

Some hunters have a very discriminating palate when it comes to ducks — they will only kill certain species like teal or wood ducks which are known for their tenderness and mild flavor.

As hunters gear up for the season, state wildlife agencies are busy preparing habitats for the upcoming nesting season, for species like the wood ducks' survival. Former presidents sit front row ...

One involves who is sleeping in the old wood duck nesting box I put up against the trunk of our white pine tree in hopes of attracting a saw-whet owl. I had been wanting to climb up to the box ...

When is a duck not a duck? The answer is … when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish-eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different ...