My job was finding ducks for the youth weekend, and I’d struck out all day until my last stop—a shallow wetland with a thick clump of willows in the middle. It didn’t seem like a wood duck spot to me, ...

KENT COUNTY, Mich. — When the wood duck was declared Michigan's state duck last month, its welcoming party — a growing community of both beginner and veteran birders — was perhaps as popular as it's ...

With its swanky pompadour and rainbow-hued plumage, the wood duck looks like it’s part peacock, part Elvis impersonator. But you won’t catch this Michigan native flashing its feathers in a tropical ...

ROSCOMMON, Mich. – Once nearly wiped out, wood ducks are now among Michigan’s most hunted waterfowl, a turnaround driven largely by generations of conservationists hanging nest boxes in wetlands and ...

LANSING, MI – Now, they are among Michigan’s most hunted waterfowl, with male wood ducks described as one of the most beautiful birds in the world. But only a few generations ago, the wood duck was ...

If you travel to remote ponds in New Hampshire you may see a small colorful bird that was once threatened with extinction.The wood duck loves to find remote ponds where they will breed and raise ...

SALEM TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — Michigan has named the wood duck as the state's very first official duck, a bird that turns heads with its rare beauty and ...

One of the most colorful birds at Wildlife Recovery Association's Little Swamp Sanctuary is the wood duck. Wood ducks stand out from other duck species in a couple ways. These ducks never quack.

All diehard duck hunters have their favorite species, and they’ll usually rank them something like this: greenheads, canvasbacks, and pintails. But living and hunting in the northern half of the ...

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 ...

REXBURG — While watching hooded mergansers and mallards feeding on a canal near Rexburg on Tuesday evening, I counted 14 wood ducks flying in to join their feeding friends just before dark. The next ...