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 ...

SEVERAL YEARS ago when my wife and I decided to put up a wood duck box that we'd won at some waterfowl fund raising event, we thought that being set out near saltwater would doom the luck of having ...

Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed. Weather patterns and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you decide to build your own or purchase a duck boxes help address habitat loss for cavity-nesting duck species. Nic Bray, ...

On Saturday, March 29, 2025, the Provo Bay Chapter of the Delta Waterfowl Foundation along with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Utah Lake Authority installed 25 henhouses in the Provo Bay ...

Springtime forests explode with color. As they begin to green out, trees and shrubs take on a lime glow. Early blooming flowers like trout lily, Virginia bluebell, Jack-in the-pulpit, spring beauty, ...

ROSCOMMON, Mich. – Once nearly wiped out, wood ducks are now among Michigan’s most hunted waterfowl, a turnaround driven largely by generations of conservationists hanging nest boxes in wetlands and ...

I got the great idea last fall to build a wood duck box for a friend’s ranch. Well, you know how that went, one became four and then eight on three different lakes. I was replacing some boxes that had ...

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 ...