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 ...

After a mated pair of wood ducks has selected a suitable tree cavity or nest box, a hen will begin to lay her eggs, one per day. Unlike what most other nest-building birds do, wood ducks don’t ...

The hen houses boost nesting success by more than ... also benefits from the nesting box designed for wood ducks. To see this in action, follow a live stream of nesting “hoodies” on the ...

Volunteers installed 12 hen houses, 10 wood duck nesting boxes, and removed four damaged wood duck nesting boxes. ALPENA — The Sunrise Side Chapter of Delta Waterfowl (Delta) spent the early ...

One hen moved her brood seven times in a 47-day period. At one time the wood duck was near extinction, then in 1918 the governments of the United States and Canada closed the hunting season on ...

Seeds, fruits, plants and insects are on the menu. Home is where the hen is Adult wood ducks search for mates in fall and pair up by midwinter for a one-year partnership. In spring, they fly north ...

David Maass’s painting of Wood Ducks for the 1974 stamp ... The drake’s wings are lifted on the upstroke, and the hen’s are powering into the end of the downstroke. It’s an idealized ...

Take time to go outside and take a good look at our amazing waterfowl! PHOTO PROVIDED A wood duck hen is seen entering her nest in a tree cavity in this 2022 APA photo by Jocelyn Anderson.

Hen wigeon, like most of the hens featured here, quack. I’m of the mind that wood ducks, as they do for all but spinning wing decoys, largely choose to ignore a supposed wood duck call.

Wood ducks and hooded mergansers incubate their eggs for 30 days, give or take a day. This year Bahls timed it perfectly for a box near his home. On May 13 he saw the hen hooded merganser poke out ...

“It looked like a hen mallard or a hen black duck ... of a male gadwall breeding a female mallard) Wild mallard x wood duck Florida mottled duck x wild mallard Muscovy x wild mallard Domestic ...

It’s always a pleasure to photograph the wood duck drake and hen when they arrive here. Since the nesting box is 30 yards from our back deck, I’ll use my Nikon D7500 SLR fitted with a 150 ...