The northeast United States has been enduring what has seemed like an eternal winter this year, with day after...

Everyone knows what a male Mallard looks like. The drake of this extremely common, sexually dimorphic species (Anas platyrhynchos) cuts...

So you’re a bird just minding your own business—feeding, nest-building, mating, that kind of thing. You’ve adapted fairly well...

In the realm of waterfowl, not all that are manky are malign. Many domestic Mallards do indeed offend the...

Here is another in a series of posts that celebrates the beauty hidden in plain sight, the astounding in...

There really isn’t much to say about the Mottled Duck. It is one of several species in the Mallard-complex...

Beauty can be found in the most commonplace. I was struck the other day by the perfect patterns created...