December marks Georgia’s hunting season for various game animals, including ducks. While hunters gear up for the season, state wildlife agencies are busy preparing habitats for the upcoming ...

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.

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 ...

This week's outdoors report has the latest on an annual effort to provide wood duck & bluebird houses to conservation-minded people.

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 ...

This project will help to develop best practices for nest box placement and identify important brood rearing habitats for wood ducks. Cole's research, which is being funded by Orton Plantation and ...