In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Wild populations of the rare Maccoa duck, an African wetland species, have been dwindling for decades. There numbers are ...

Just 17 of more than 120 duck species worldwide perch in trees. Wood ducks are the only perching ducks native to the U.S. and Canada. Strong claws on their webbed feet help them cling to branches ...

The highly threatened ducks have been hatched at the zoo for the first time as part of a specialist breeding program.

The results are in on the long-running breeding duck survey, where biologists count ducks in social groups by species and ...

When you consider that there are over 9,000 species of birds in the world and over 700 here in the United States, found anywhere from deserts to dense forests, oak woodlands, grasslands, marshes ...

Researchers uncovered a new extinct duck species, the Cuban teal, in Western Cuba’s Pinar-del-Río region. The fossil dates to the Late Pleistocene epoch.