diving ducks plunge below the surface for food and perching ducks nest in trees. Examples of diving ducks include the ruddy duck, mergansers and the harlequin duck, each with unique ...

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.

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 ...

“Somebody came up with this nesting structure, and they found out it worked really well,” Frank says. Each box is designed to mimic natural tree cavities that the ducks would otherwise use for ...

Wood ducks prefer to nest in tree cavities alongside lakes or rivers and in the shallow backwaters. But they will nest almost anywhere they find the right set-up. The oddest location I ever saw a ...

The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...