How much have you ever paid attention to ducks? We see them flying in formation and swimming in streams or ponds, little more than set pieces for suburban life. Every now and again we might go to a ...

Instead, it transformed into their very own duck-sized lazy river, and their ducks absolutely couldn’t get enough of it. Make ...

It would make sense for waterfowl to use waterways as navigational aids while they migrate south for the winter. And biologists thought that North American ducks used rivers as leading lines for ...

These are the various ways French, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Arabian, Hungarian, Russian, and Thai might imitate the call of a mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), probably the most common duck in the world.

As anyone who’s ever seen a peacock or a hummingbird can attest, birds are some of this planet’s most magnificent inhabitants. Their feathers are highly specialized and often dazzling. Scientists have ...