It’s nice to have all your ducks (or ducklings) in a row. Baby black-bellied whistling duck chicks can walk and have their eyes open almost immediately after hatching. If you live in our area along ...

Readers have recently asked about a flock of handsome ducklike birds hanging out in their driveways or backyards. The birds are black-bellied whistling ducks with eye-catching color contrasts. Their ...

THE white-faced whistling tree duck became locally extirpated in Trinidad in the 1930s. Several years ago the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust started the breeding of this beautiful and useful species ...

Readers have been asking me about some odd-looking ducks roaming their yards. I understand the wonderment. Black-bellied whistling-ducks don’t walk like typical ducks, nor feed like typical ducks.

In August 2010, I wrote a column about the black-bellied whistling-duck. It’s an odd “tree duck” that looks like a cross between a goose and a duck. Its genus name, Dendrocygna, means “tree swan.” ...

One of the most fascinating and valuable things about wildlife is that it serves as environmental monitors for us human residents as it constantly adapts to changes in the natural world that we may ...

Waterfowl, or ducks as most folks know them by, have always been around on the Upper Texas Coast as far we have records. Although less plentiful than years gone by, they are still here year-round, and ...

There’s a depth in which I’m comfortable wading through southwest Florida’s wet-weather ponds, and that’s right about my waist. I feel that any deeper and I’ll be unable to mount a meaningful retreat ...

A small group of people at a ballpark with binoculars and cameras on an early Saturday morning in late summer might not be too strange a sight. Except that this group was way too early for a game and ...

A non-native duck believed to have escaped from captivity has been spotted on a Cornish beach. Artist Amal Barwell said she feeds the ducks every morning on Par beach after her dog walks and spotted ...