For 14 years, I've been maintaining and monitoring a dozen or so wood duck nesting boxes I placed on my property south of Brainerd. Wood ducks, as well as other cavity-nesting species such as ...

Your wood pieces should be at least ¾ inch thick ... The National Wildlife Federation suggests scoring the insides of your nest box underneath the opening to give traction to fledglings when ...

Wood ducks nest seasonally in forested areas across North America from coast to coast in southern Canada and the northern ...

The wood duck is one of seven species of North American ducks that regularly nest in natural cavities. The others are the hooded and common mergansers, common and Barrow’s goldeneyes ...

Significantly, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 prohibited the hunting of wood ducks nationwide. In the 1930s, artificial nest boxes proved to be a boost to the species' recovery. In 1934 the ...

As a result of his study, Boparai is recommending the Conservancy not build or install any new wood duck nest boxes but rather use “adaptive management” to relocate nest boxes that ...

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 ...

Few birds, in Ohio or anywhere else, can rival the drake wood duck for sheer gaudiness. It’s as if a team of great artists was commissioned to design and color the fowl. Rodin sculpted the ...