It’s nice to have all your ducks (or ducklings) in a row. Baby black-bellied whistling duck chicks can walk and have their eyes open almost immediately after hatching. If you live in our area along ...

Readers have recently asked about a flock of handsome ducklike birds hanging out in their driveways or backyards. The birds are black-bellied whistling ducks with eye-catching color contrasts. Their ...

THE white-faced whistling tree duck became locally extirpated in Trinidad in the 1930s. Several years ago the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust started the breeding of this beautiful and useful species ...

In August 2010, I wrote a column about the black-bellied whistling-duck. It’s an odd “tree duck” that looks like a cross between a goose and a duck. Its genus name, Dendrocygna, means “tree swan.” ...

One of the most fascinating and valuable things about wildlife is that it serves as environmental monitors for us human residents as it constantly adapts to changes in the natural world that we may ...

Waterfowl, or ducks as most folks know them by, have always been around on the Upper Texas Coast as far we have records. Although less plentiful than years gone by, they are still here year-round, and ...

During the Audubon Society's 1959-60 Christmas Bird Count, birders in deep South Texas recorded seeing 143 black-bellied whistling ducks. It was the first time Texas birders had recorded the species ...

In my long-ago youth, I'd see black-bellied whistling ducks only in the Rio Grande Valley; and my great-great-grandfather could have only seen them in Mexico. But now, I look out my window to see the ...

There’s a depth in which I’m comfortable wading through southwest Florida’s wet-weather ponds, and that’s right about my waist. I feel that any deeper and I’ll be unable to mount a meaningful retreat ...

A non-native duck believed to have escaped from captivity has been spotted on a Cornish beach. Artist Amal Barwell said she feeds the ducks every morning on Par beach after her dog walks and spotted ...