I’m convinced, Hooded Mergansers are simply Wood Ducks that have been corrupted by the Dark Side. Similar in size and sharing a proclivity for nesting in tree cavities, the bill of the hoodie shrivels ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Early April is the prime time for viewing waterfowl. The ducks are on their way north to their breeding grounds. They pause along our rivers to rest, roost, and feed. Their numbers are ...

It is just a short walk from the small house that I use for an office to reach the pond that we call the Swamp House pond. In summer, there are often wetland birds such as green herons in silent ...

Q: I snapped a photo of a female hooded merganser leading her ducklings in the water. But here’s the strange part: They weren’t all the same species as their mother — some were wood ducks, some were ...

The hooded merganser is the smallest of the three North American merganser species and the only one whose distribution is limited to this continent. Named for the conspicuous white crest sported by ...

The best advice to find hooded mergansers used to be, get yourself to a pond in the woods. This season, you can just as well look in one of the Grand Forks retention ponds, part of the flood control ...