In honor of Earth Month—and Earth Day later this week—we’re celebrating the best way we know how: with a series of stories that are all about getting outside and getting your hands dirty to benefit ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

If you peek into a wood duck nesting box during the breeding cycle, you might find 10 to 11 eggs, which is the bird's normal clutch size. But you might also stumble upon a box overflowing with as many ...

Unseasonably warm February weather fast tracked the spring duck migration in North Iowa, and I had yet to put out the wood duck welcome mat. Time to bedden those boxes. While many species pass through ...

Pop: Spice cake, Mom — kind of warms one up in this cooler weather. Summer certainly goes by too quickly. I'll put the kettle on and be prepared for my usual. Well, we had a pretty lively discussion ...