Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto wrote this article, which originally appeared in Horizons magazine.

While driving across Sugar Creek, I slowed down to look downstream and saw a pair of wood ducks on the water. I pulled the vehicle to the side of the road, grabbed my binoculars and crept back to get ...

The male wood duck has an iridescent “slicked-back” crest, red eyes, a bill striped with yellow, red, white and black, a ...