By Susan Bard, Bangor Daily News Staff The first thing I ever shot was a hen wood duck. I was an 18-year-old college student ...

This, and the pen and cob — the proper names for adult female and male — doing the characteristic “shimmy” of their large ...

Here's an interesting display of passive survival techniques from a wood duck and family with ducklings where the drake plays dead whilst the others hide. I happened to accidentally stumble upon them ...