Monday, May 24, had a special visitor. One hen mallard sat still as a statue on a nest, seemingly oblivious to the energy of the kids running around the playground. “I think she found that spot ...

This wild mallard hen was sitting on thin ice. The pool she sat on was very shallow, with bits of vegetation extending above the ice. Although wild ducks are able to fly at night, this hen stayed ...

The hen mallard falloff has raised alarms only in recent years in part because the severity of their decline hasn't been highlighted in spring surveys conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Hens wear a coat of black-tipped brown feathers with an orange/black bill. Mallards range in size from 2 to 3 pounds, although some drakes get bigger. The mallard hen makes the classic “quack ...

Their goal on the outing was to attach a Global Positioning System/Global System for Mobile Communication tracking device on a hen mallard. But first they'd have to capture one. Our group ...

Our nesting Mallard hen brought her family out of the weeds yesterday. She has a duckling of very unusual plumage. An Internet search produced illustrations of similar birds referred to as 'blonde ...

“It looked like a hen mallard or a hen black duck, and her belly was tannish,” says Wec, who usually expects a mix of mallards, black ducks, and a few geese that time of year. “She cupped her wings ...

A mallard hen plucked her own well-camouflaged down to build a nest in the landscaping of Lil' Cooperstown Bar and Grill in Oregon City. The duck sits quietly as restaurant customers come and go ...

That includes hen houses, which when placed in areas with high mallard density, can boost nest success by 60 percent. In the “duck factory,” which stretches from the Prairie Pothole Region of ...

Along a marsh at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, Eric Johnson is installing a mallard hen house, courtesy of the Flyway Foundation in South Carolina. "The waterfowlers and duck enthusiasts in ...

The hen mallard falloff has raised alarms only in recent years in part because the severity of their decline hasn't been highlighted in spring surveys conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...