A female wood duck is an overall gray with some blue and purple wing markings, a white eye ring, brown eyes and a duller bill. During courtship, a male wood duck raises its regal crest ...

The male wood duck is one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We’re lucky we can see them almost any day of the week, any ...

The females are pretty cool, too, in the classically understated way of female birds. The wood duck is one of seven species of North American ducks that regularly nest in natural cavities.