and wood duck populations were declining. “Somebody came up with this nesting structure, and they found out it worked really well,” Frank says. Each box is designed to mimic natural tree ...

This week's outdoors report has the latest on an annual effort to provide wood duck & bluebird houses to conservation-minded people.

The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...