ST. MICHAEL, Minn. (WCCO) -- For just about a month, the students of Big Woods Elementary have been watching a mother duck sit on her nest in the courtyard of their school. On Tuesday, with a little ...

DEAR JOAN: We have a mallard duck that made a nest with four eggs in our backyard. I would like to know how many hours a duck sits on her eggs. Once the eggs hatch, how long before the babies can fly?

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A west metro homeowner who built a floating, raccoon-proof nest for a neighborhood duck says the mallard's eggs hatched over the weekend. Nature buff Rick Rice told WCCO-TV that ...

A pinch of methylmercury is just ducky for mallard reproduction, according to a new federal study. The findings are counterintuitive, since methylmercury is ordinarily a potent neurotoxic pollutant.

The hatching of a dozen tiny, caramel-colored ducks yesterday afternoon proves that Mother’s Day isn’t necessarily for humans only. A mallard duck in Bethlehem Township timed it just right to ...

WASHINGTON — Editor's note: The footage above aired in September 2021. A female duck has found a new temporary home for her soon-to-be family at the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in ...

WASHINGTON -- Break out the cigars. The Treasury ducklings are hatching. The brown mallard duck, which became Washington's newest tourist attraction a block away from the White House, began hatching ...