BRAINERD, MINN. — Minnesotans with eyes and ears toward the outdoors likely know about the recent passing of Don (Duckman) Helmeke. Duckman had a passion for waterfowl -- in particular wood ducks -- ...

Old Man Winter has finally relaxed his grip on a landscape that's been frozen for, well, a long time. If that isn't enough good news, consider this: Tomorrow we will receive about four more minutes of ...

Building and erecting wood duck nesting boxes is a great project for late winter and early spring. Nesting habitat for the wood duck, which usually nest in tree cavities near wetlands rather than on ...

If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn’t be wrong. They’re beauties, they just are. A recent tweet, not a quack, announced that a few of these birds had ...

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One of the few waterfowl species to reproduce in the Palmetto State is arguably among the most beautiful in the world. Wood ducks — aka “Carolina duck,” “Summer duck” or “woodies” — are a masterpiece ...