January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...

Waterfowl are beginning to pour into area marshes and wet spots where winter snowmelt has yet to drain off. From the subtle but beautiful hues of the graceful pintail to the strikingly vivid wood duck ...

A flock of ruddy ducks migrating south were overcome with sleet and landed on glistening roads in Noble and surrounding areas this weekend. Rondi Large, director of WildCare Foundation, said ruddy ...

Winter is the season for watching ducks. In spring, the great majority of our ducks will head to their nesting grounds to the north, leaving mallards as our only common and widespread breeding species ...

For many birders, peak seasonal excitement is reserved for the spring and fall, when colorful songbirds pass through our area. Warblers are great, and when April and May come around I will be out ...

If you listen to some waterfowlers, you might get the idea that mallards are the only ducks found in Arkansas. There’s no disputing the fact that these beautiful birds, which winter by the millions in ...