Duck boxes provide vital nesting sites for wood ducks and other cavity-nesting species, combating habitat loss and protecting them from predators. Learn why they're crucial.

Once nearly wiped out by overhunting and logging, nest boxes kept wood ducks from vanishing – and volunteers are still putting them up today.

ELLWOOD CITY — Doug Slade is enthusiastic about the Boy Scouts, Rotary Club of Ellwood City and wood ducks. The Ellwood City Rotary president‘s three passions have come together as his club is ...

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 -- ...

MANSFIELD, La. – DeSoto Parish DOVE students are only weeks into a project where they are building wood duck boxes for sale to the public. But on Monday, their effort got a big boost that will give ...

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I got the great idea last fall to build a wood duck box for a friend’s ranch. Well, you know how that went, one became four and then eight on three different lakes. I was replacing some boxes that had ...

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 ...

Braving the cold of winter, volunteers build boxes to help wood ducks nest and hatch their young in spring.