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 ...

Last Monday while looking for some woodies to photograph, I was watching three woodie couples feeding along the edge of a ...

In the waterfowl world, Alabama’s most abundant species, the wood duck, is not known for migrating long distances. It turns out, the wood duck migration patterns follow a “boy meets girl” scenario.

The females are pretty cool, too, in the classically understated way of female birds. The wood duck is one of seven species of North American ducks that regularly nest in natural cavities.

If I had the opportunity to create a bird species, I’m not sure how I would proceed. Would it be a giant like an ostrich, a ...

The Wood Duck marks the arrival of early spring, with the male’s vibrant plumage displaying iridescent purple-green hues.