The male wood duck has an iridescent “slicked-back” crest, red eyes, a bill striped with yellow, red, white and black, a bright-white “bridle” and boldly colored feathers on its body and ...

A male wood duck is a startling sight, resplendent in a rainbow palette artfully patched together. The bird verges on gaudy but is too elegant to merit any descriptor that hints at tastelessness.

A wood duck flipping back and forth as it comes in to land is as tricky a shot as you’ll get in duck hunting. Focus on the bird’s head and shoot instinctively. I will admit that as good as ...

One example is a marvelous hue-rich waterfowl, the wood duck, which was driven near extinction before ... “It’s not meant to be, ‘People can sit back and problems in the environment will take care of ...

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 ...

One day after hatching, a baby wood duck is ready to take a remarkable leap ... then springing it back up. The mother calls her baby over but otherwise hangs back. More of her young take the ...

Waterfowl are making their way back from the wintering grounds in large ... Now is also the time to get out and prepare your wood duck boxes so they are ready for nesting in a few weeks.

The male wood duck has an iridescent head that may appear green to blue to black with a crest of the same color that is really laid back, like a mane. The chin, throat and chin strap are wedding ...

I had purchased from Duckman a handful of special washers he designed to ease the chore of mounting wood duck boxes to trees. That was more than a decade ago. Back then most wood duck boxes were ...

During most of that time, he has focused on improving the habitat for the wood duck. That was his topic at the semiannual ... The club will give a free box, and requests only that it can come back ...