The whistling sound of beating wings moves through the forest as a common goldeneye duck lands in a nest box mounted to the side of a tree near the Moose Creek Dam in North Pole, Alaska. Focused on ...

Alena Naiden, [email protected] Jun 20, 2021 Jun 20, 2021 On a hot Wednesday morning, a group enters the sunlit grove searching for birds. Tucked away amid the dense layer of trees, wooden boxes ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima Area Greenway walkers in winter often hear a distinctive whistling sound coming from a duck flying over the icy waters of the Yakima River. This sound comes from the wingbeats ...

Leap Day is recognized Feb. 29 about every four years to keep human schedules and solar movements in sync. But leap days occur annually throughout May in Wisconsin thanks to an army of conservation ...

Question: There are large bird houses on the shores of the lake I fish. Are these wood duck houses, and do they really help the duck population? Answer: They are probably wood duck nesting boxes, and ...

Female goldeneye ducks can make cheating pay big-time, doubling the number of their offspring by sneaking off to lay eggs in nests other than their own. Bird-watchers have long known that many female ...

Sometimes we birders may count 100 or so common goldeneyes in with some mallards wintering at open water areas such as below the Coon Rapids Dam or other open spots on the Mississippi River.

As other ducks boisterously announce their presence quacking, whistling, and peeping in the small, forested lakes and ponds of northwestern United States, Canada, and Iceland, the handsome black and ...

Ducks commonly capture the public attention when a female chooses a nest site next to a fast-food drive-through window, when an outsized gathering of them causes a contamination of a public park or ...