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 ...

She sure is a beauty! We just know the Black-Bellied Whistling Duck’s babies are going to be just as beautiful once they hatch from their eggs. But for now, their mama needs to keep them safe. By any ...

WOOSTER – When Henry Miller spotted a brown duck with babies in his farm pond the first week in September, he knew he had never seen such a bird before. So, he asked the neighbor boy, Harry ...

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.” ...

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 ...

In 2017, the first black-bellied whistling ducks were reported in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The following year, on July 28, two adults and 14 downy chicks were photographed in Posey County, ...

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 ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced the fulvous whistling duck will be the featured species of the 2022 Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp, or Louisiana Duck Stamp, ...

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In my long-ago youth, I'd see black-bellied whistling ducks only in the Rio Grande Valley; and my great-great-grandfather could have only seen them in Mexico. But now, I look out my window to see the ...