The bright yellow plastic duck, measuring 61 feet high, 64 feet wide and 74 feet long, will make her Put-in-Bay debut next ...

In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the mallard. Mallards might be best known for their green heads, seen in the males.

Our total duck population is now down 34% from that time period’s average, and our mallard breeding population in North Dakota is down 57% from that average. Those are pretty significant ...

Mallards seem to be everywhere. They gather in parks and ponds, forage in farm fields, and even nest in urban planter boxes. This flexibility has helped make Mallards the most common ducks in North ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 78th annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of about 2.66 million birds, down from 2.9 million in 2024 and 3.4 million in ...

Birds are arriving back here from their wintering areas, so get out there and look. Test Your Outdoor Knowledge: I mentioned in this article that wood ducks can nest in a tree cavity 20 or 30 feet ...

Not long after, Song discovered through monitoring that a mandarin duck mother hatching eggs had not returned to the nest, leaving its seven eggs in the nest. After much contemplation, he decided to ...

A male Wood duck is spotted earlier this month with his new female Mallard in Central Park, and the two are reportedly finding love. David Barrett of Manhattan Bird Alert “It’s unusual for a ...

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 ...

The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground.

The other day I got a phone called from Cathy Prince, the President of the St. Croix hiking Association. She was giving me an ...