And then there were three: three half-grown wood ducks, survivors from a hatch of 25 eggs. The hen began motherhood with a flotilla of ducklings swimming behind her. Prior to nesting season, we had ...

Wood ducks are known to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds — an act known as brood parasitism Earlier this month, wildlife artist and photographer Laurie Wolf peeped some exciting activity in ...

A final report for 2023 at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve shows that more wood duck eggs are being laid and more of those eggs are hatching. The information bears out earlier studies, which showed a ...

White-tailed deer fawns are born. The first monarch butterflies arrive. New cattail leaves grow 2 to 5 feet, making marshes look green again. Gardeners harvest leaf lettuce, radishes, green onions, ...

I describe an Eastern Screech-owl (Megascops asio) hatching three Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) eggs in a suburban nest box. Wood Duck(s) removed all five eggs of a completed screech-owl clutch, the earliest ...

Volunteers at a Riverside County duck sanctuary are fighting to save as many hatchlings as they can after a "horrible situation" in which hundreds of fertilized eggs were abandoned in Orange County ...

The students in Ms. Termine’s kindergarten class at St. Joseph’s School in Medford have been studying animal life cycles as part of their big end of the year science project. Perhaps the most exciting ...

In Episode 241 of the Mother Earth News and Friends, John Metzer of Metzer Farms and Stephen Horst of Fifth Day Farm offer advice on the temperatures needed for incubating guinea, goose, and duck eggs ...

Another study in a series on Wood Ducks at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve has found that 2024 was a productive year for the birds, with record-high nesting attempts, eggs laid, eggs hatched, and ...