An off-Broadway version of “West Side Story” has been playing out in Central Park this spring, as a male wood duck has found ...

In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the mallard.

Everyone can identify a male mallard duck with their iridescent ... color of the wing patch (the speculum or secondary wing feathers). Black ducks have dark bodies with noticeably lighter colored ...

The wing's all-glass facade sometimes ... when Moeliker spotted a second, living male mallard nearby, which began pecking at the back of the dead duck's head. After a couple of minutes, the ...

Mallard ducks: It seems like they’re everywhere ... bordered by white, on their wings. 2. THEY DON’T SOUND ALIKE, EITHER. Male mallards don’t sound much like what we think ducks sound ...

A female wood duck is an overall gray with some blue and purple wing markings, a white eye ring, brown eyes and a duller bill ...

The plumage of an adult male mallard is absolutely spectacular. An iridescent metallic-green head that can shift from green to blue in the proper light would itself be enough to qualify the duck as ...