Imagine 10 nearly round white eggs snug in a hollow tree, lined with soft feathers plucked from the mother’s breast. The hen carefully tends the two-inch eggs for about a month until the chicks hatch.

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 ...

Against a backdrop of above-average precipitation and wetland conditions, the 2019 Wisconsin breeding waterfowl survey found a slight drop in duck numbers and an increase in Canada geese, according to ...

Ducks commonly capture the public attention when a female chooses a nest site next to a fast-food drive-through window, when an outsized gathering of them causes a contamination of a public park or ...

Imagine this: You see a medium-sized, black-and-white waterfowl with a white crescent on its face, bobbing on the surface of Heart Lake (on the Flat Tops). Suddenly, it dives. What species of ...

The fourth edition of the Blue Water Nature Series features two mergansers. The common (Mergus merganser) and red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serratus) are winter residents of Lake Huron and the St.

Signs of spring start materializing come mid-February, especially in mild winters like this one. Our first “wildflower,” skunk cabbage, bursts from spring-fed mires. Buds begin to pop on elms and ...

• 600,000 Sandhill cranes gather along the Platte River in central and western Nebraska. Visit www.rowesanctuary.com. • Flocks of common redpolls have descended into Boulder County from the frozen ...