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.

This video shows how to create the right environment to facilitate duck nesting, egg laying, and incubation plus brooding in safety. <a href="http://www ...

Special to Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Maribel Sportsmen’s Club and Francis Creek Sportsman’s Club are again underway with their annual wood duck and bluebird ...

Individuals will often return to the same or a nearby nesting site annually, as do their offspring. While the boxes are built for wood ducks, they might also be used by hood mergansers or ...

Recent views, however, indicate that on the overall wood duck population, nesting boxes no longer have the impact they once had. Part of that is because natural nesting sites have improved in ...

A peregrine falcon nest box has been installed in the "highest point" of a Leicestershire town centre. The platform was placed on top of the tower of All Saints Church, in Loughborough ...

As hunters gear up for the season, state wildlife agencies are busy preparing habitats for the upcoming nesting season, for species like the wood ducks' survival. Former presidents sit front row ...

Nesting boxes have been put up around a borough to try and help swifts thrive. North Tyneside Council has installed 28 boxes to try and tackle the birds' depleting numbers. The swift population in ...

One involves who is sleeping in the old wood duck nesting box I put up against the trunk of our white pine tree in hopes of attracting a saw-whet owl. I had been wanting to climb up to the box ...

When is a duck not a duck? The answer is … when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish-eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different ...

The students put up a duck nesting box Friday. (Photo courtesy of Chris ... additional benefit of having a ready source to feed the wood-fueled boiler that heats its school building.