"A hen wood duck peeks out of the PVC nesting house designed and created by George Wellenkotter in response to loss of natural habitat, primarily oaks, used by the birds each spring to hatch clutches.

Grandmother Robin Kopel gives a high-five to Dawson Kopel, 3, after they finished his wood duck house during a free event at the Lake Lillian Community Center on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

Roger Strand, left, and Troy Heck examine the contents just removed from a wood duck nesting house near the Flags of Honor memorial in Willmar on April 8, 2023. They were part of a group of volunteers ...

Members of Maribel and Francis Creek sportsmen’s clubs are again busy this winter building wood duck and bluebird houses for the public to put out on the landscape. Manitowoc County Fish and Game ...

Question: There are large bird houses on the shores of the lake I fish. Are these wood duck houses, and do they really help the duck population? Answer: They are probably wood duck nesting boxes, and ...

Unseasonably warm February weather fast tracked the spring duck migration in North Iowa, and I had yet to put out the wood duck welcome mat. Time to bedden those boxes. While many species pass through ...

Maribel Sportsmen’s Club and Francis Creek Sportsmen’s Club members kicked off the wood duck and bluebird house building season for 2021. This has been an ongoing project for the two clubs since 1990.

You've no doubt heard the saying "it takes a village to raise a child." I know from personal experience how powerful a supportive community can be to human development. The concept also applies to ...

The wood duck and bluebird house project headed by Maribel Sportsman’s Club and Francis Creek Sportsman’s Club continues to reach new milestones. Feb. 19, we built wood duck house No. 8,000 since the ...

If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn’t be wrong. They’re beauties, they just are. A recent tweet, not a quack, announced that a few of these birds had ...

If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn’t be wrong. They’re beauties, they just are. A recent tweet, not a quack, announced that a few of these birds had ...