And then there were three: three half-grown wood ducks, survivors from a hatch of 25 eggs. The hen began motherhood with a flotilla of ducklings swimming behind her. Prior to nesting season, we had ...

Another study in a series on Wood Ducks at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve has found that 2024 was a productive year for the birds, with record-high nesting attempts, eggs laid, eggs hatched, and ...

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 describe an Eastern Screech-owl (Megascops asio) hatching three Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) eggs in a suburban nest box. Wood Duck(s) removed all five eggs of a completed screech-owl clutch, the earliest ...

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 ...

Five years ago I put up a wood duck box at the edge of a pond. Wood ducks began frequenting the box and, although I occasionally would see a wood duck fly in or out the hole, I never did see a brood ...

One day after hatching, a baby wood duck is ready to take a remarkable leap of faith. The fluffy chick climbs to the narrow opening of its nest and peeks over the edge. Its mother paddles in a ...

Old Man Winter has finally relaxed his grip on a landscape that's been frozen for, well, a long time. If that isn't enough good news, consider this: Tomorrow we will receive about four more minutes of ...

I spent a lot of years chasing poachers and outlaws during my career as a duck cop. And during that time I developed a gigantic love for all waterfowl. I was a pushover for the Canada goose, ...

HORICON – On this mid-February day, Horicon Marsh was locked in ice and covered with snow. Not a bird or mammal stirred in sight. But the conditions were perfect to open some of the marsh's secrets.

David Watkins doesn't consider himself much of a duck hunter. He's taken two before, and would be OK if he never took another. But after seeing a few wood ducks fly near his property in York County, ...

A final report for 2023 at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve shows that more wood duck eggs are being laid and more of those eggs are hatching. The information bears out earlier studies, which showed a ...