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 ...

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.

But now it’s December and the ducks are here. There are a lot of them: teals and wigeons, gadwalls and shovelers, pintails and scaups, buffleheads and canvasbacks, ruddy ducks, goldeneyes ...

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 ...

Courtesy of Connie Owen Michael Schimmel sent photos of ruddy ducks and American coots from Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach. “I’m happy to report that duck season has begun ...

redheads and ring-necked ducks all set records for number of broods observed this year, along with ruddy ducks nearly breaking their previous record. Game and Fish biologists will conduct a ...

Coming in soon and staying mostly through winter will be hooded mergansers, ruddy ducks, gadwalls, wigeons, shovelers, mallards, pintails, canvasbacks, buffleheads, ring-necked ducks and others.

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 ...

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 ...