The northeast United States has been enduring what has seemed like an eternal winter this...

Everyone knows what a male Mallard looks like. The drake of this extremely common, sexually dimorphic...

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

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

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

There really isn’t much to say about the Mottled Duck. It is one of several...

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