A female wood duck is an overall gray with some blue and purple wing markings, a white eye ring, brown eyes and a duller bill. During courtship, a male wood duck raises its regal crest, containing ...

Just 17 of more than 120 duck species worldwide perch in trees. Wood ducks are the only perching ducks native to the U.S. and Canada. Strong claws on their webbed feet help them cling to branches ...

If you have never seen a male wood duck, you are missing one of God’s most beautiful creations. Both sexes share a crested head. The males (drakes) are a rainbow of colors blending together in a ...

The white-winged wood duck, one of the rarest birds in the National Zoological Park collection, that was hatched at the Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia. Contained within ...

The wood duck is a stunning, vibrantly colored species, the stuff of birders’ dreams. The male has an iridescent green, blue, and purple head with stark red eyes. Its breast is chestnut brown.

From March to September, the wooden duck sits on my front porch, his long, white neck extended gracefully as he looks at the trees in the front yard and the ...

Wood ducks are thriving today in wetland areas across the United States. But this wasn't always the case, according to a new regional blog post from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

Gallery: She's back! A wood duck once again is bringing the "White Christmas" spirit to Riverfront park. Some have speculated it's an albino, others have suggested the duck with the pink eye rings ...

Florida’s early wood duck and teal hunting season runs from Sept. 16-20. ... The first stretch or mourning and white-winged dove season begins Sept. 26 and ends Oct. 15.

By the early 1900s, wood duck populations had plummeted so badly that some ornithologists were predicting its extinction by 1930. Bird boom: Birds of Ohio list grows from 420 to 443 species in 14 ...