When you’re done differentiating redhead vs canvasback, learn what a wood duck looks like. The redhead’s red head feathers ...

During courtship, a male wood duck raises its regal crest, containing hundreds of tiny feathers, by flexing muscles on top of ...

The IUCN has listed the Brazilian merganser, a fish-eating duck with prominent head feathers, as critically endangered since 1994. Vaidl said the bird was already believed to be extinct in the ...