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 ...

I woke up with a splitting headache and bloody sinuses. Every muscle in my body ached and I was utterly exhausted even after ...

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 ...

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Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

In 2024, Apex's Conservation Grant Program awarded $960,000, driving $21 million for conservation efforts since the program's establishment in 2021.

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.

I’ve always had a fondness for the little clusters of closely related species that evolution can produce. Sometimes it’s a whole genus, like those infuriatingly similar Empidonax flycatchers; ...

When most people talk about Lake Mac, they have visions of warm, sunny days cruising in a boat or maybe fishing for ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

Birds such as Vaux’s swifts and purple martins live in the snags, while nesting birds such as wood ducks and Western screech ...