If you spend much time near a South Texas river or lake, you have probably noticed one or more ducks rapidly flying overhead while whistling a tune. These are black-bellied whistling ducks. They are ...

If you live in our area along the Texas coast, you might have been lucky enough to see a black-bellied whistling duck or maybe whole swarms of them. These ducks don’t behave like any other duck we see ...

Readers have recently asked about a flock of handsome ducklike birds hanging out in their driveways or backyards. The birds are black-bellied whistling ducks with eye-catching color contrasts. Their ...

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 ...

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.

Another rare bird has been spotted in Ohio, and state wildlife experts believe it's here to stay. In a Facebook post this week, the Ohio Division of Wildlife reports that black-bellied whistling-ducks ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joanne Campbell notified me via Facebook of a visit of an unusual waterfowl on Saturday, May 18, at her home near Middlebrook Lake in Bristol, Tennessee. I needed a moment to look past the obvious ...

Another rare bird has been spotted in Ohio, and state wildlife experts believe it's here to stay. In a Facebook post week, the Ohio Division of Wildlife reports black-bellied whistling-ducks have been ...

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 ...