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 ...

“The mated couples inspect old woodpecker holes, tree cavities and wood duck boxes for a nesting spot,” Berlinghof said. “Typically, the male will perch nearby while the female tips her head ...

The wood duck is a cavity nester and will also use man-made nest boxes when natural cavities are limited. The female usually lays between six and 15 eggs. Like several other bird species ...

Frank is helping in leading efforts to maintain dozens of duck boxes around Lake Juliette. These simple yet essential structures provide female wood ducks with safe spaces to nest and raise their ...

The male, with its exotic coloring and looking as if it just flew out of an ancient Japanese silk screen, is a duck of unparalleled beauty. The female wood duck has more subtle, subdued coloring ...

As is usual with waterfowl, the female is much more muted. She has her own charms, though, just not the over-the-top gaudiness of the male. As exotic as the wood duck may seem, it is a common bird ...

I have a wood duck nesting box near a pond ... in the water below the box and calls to them, so if you see a female duck doing this, you will soon see the ducklings emerge. Q: I had hummingbirds ...

The danger is illustrated by the fact that female wood ducks are subject to the highest nesting mortality of any of our duck species. But those hens that lose nests but manage to survive the ...

A female Wood Duck incubates her eggs. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of ...