There’s a depth in which I’m comfortable wading through southwest Florida’s wet-weather ponds, and that’s right about my waist. I feel that any deeper and I’ll be unable to mount a meaningful retreat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another rare bird has been spotted in Ohio, and state wildlife experts believe it's here to stay. In a Facebook post week, the ...

Readers have been asking me about some odd-looking ducks roaming their yards. I understand the wonderment. Black-bellied whistling-ducks don’t walk like typical ducks, nor feed like typical ducks.

When it’s a black-bellied whistling duck. If you don’t know what a black-bellied whistling duck is, picture a black, white and brown duck with an orange duck beak and orange webbed duck feet. It looks ...

In August 2010, I wrote a column about the black-bellied whistling-duck. It’s an odd “tree duck” that looks like a cross between a goose and a duck. Its genus name, Dendrocygna, means “tree swan.” ...

One of the most fascinating and valuable things about wildlife is that it serves as environmental monitors for us human residents as it constantly adapts to changes in the natural world that we may ...

A small group of people at a ballpark with binoculars and cameras on an early Saturday morning in late summer might not be too strange a sight. Except that this group was way too early for a game and ...

Viewers Brandi and Michael Cox sent KPLC a photo of a very long line of ducklings following two adult ducks near the Kingspoint subdivision in Lake Charles. Twenty-three hatchlings are not uncommon, ...