Jim Abrams offers insight on one of his favorite jobs as a game protector for the Division of Wildlife: placing and maintaining wood duck nesting boxes.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Long Island was once ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the ...

Although Wilcox is best known for its cedar boards that make excellent bluebird boxes, they also have 1x10 farm-raised ... once were, nesting boxes can help in local situations. Duck boxes have ...

During its heyday in the early 1960s, the region boasted more than 100 farms, producing up to 7.5 million birds annually, or about two-thirds of the nation’s duck output.