In this heartwarming video, a mother Ruddy Duck is seen with her adorable little ducklings as they swim together. The sight of the tiny ducklings learning to navigate the water under their mother ...

To find out, she and her team sorted two species with very different mating systems, ruddy ducks and lesser scaups, either into pairs or into groups of five females and eight males, all housed in ...

What's Undetermined An investigation was needed to verify that the duck in the video was indeed a ruddy shelduck — known as a casarca in Italy — a protected species in Europe. Also ...

January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory.

Experts identified one of the birds as a ruddy shelduck, a protected species ... set off what one Italian newspaper called the "Donald Duck crisis." Sponsor Message Green party politicians in ...

Pippin, the 20-year-old North American Ruddy Duck and Mork, the 52-year-old Indian Sarus Crane, died at the end of January. Both animals far outlived their average lifespans. According to the zoo ...

In Europe, the ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis, right) was once seen as a welcome North American addition to wildfowl collections. But the species escaped, became widespread and has threatened the ...

The ruddy shelduck is known in India as the Brahminy duck. Zanoni said it is a protected species and "very rare in all of Europe." It's a migratory bird species that breeds in southeast Europe ...