Anyone who's seen them knows how stunning wood ducks are. The male's iridescent green and purple head, white stripes, red eyes and deep reddish-brown chest have even led some to proclaim that the wood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you decide to build your own or purchase a duck boxes help address habitat loss for cavity-nesting duck species. Nic Bray, ...

Few birds, in Ohio or anywhere else, can rival the drake wood duck for sheer gaudiness. It’s as if a team of great artists was commissioned to design and color the fowl. Rodin sculpted the graceful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fascinating wildlife video is going viral after TikTok user Nick shared a moment that left thousands of viewers both surprised ...

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 ...

Wood ducks are known to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds — an act known as brood parasitism Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering ...

They may have a ho-hum name, but the wood duck can easily be described as the dandy of the duck world. Nature went all out when it created this multicolored perching duck, complete with bright red ...

They look as if a wood carver with an unexpired creative license created them in a fit of imagination. The male’s green crest sweeps back over its head like an emerald green helmet with white piping.

I participated in the iconic New Englander migration south to Florida during winter break last week. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter but it did feel good to be in the sun, and, even better ...

If you peek into a wood duck nesting box during the breeding cycle, you might find 10 to 11 eggs, which is the bird's normal clutch size. But you might also stumble upon a box overflowing with as many ...