The ducks take to them really, really well.” File photo/Simon Fuller Last year, Betty and Herman Zwanzig had two wood duck nest boxes at their riverside home in St. James.

Enter the wood duck box. The first attempt to use them on a large scale came in 1937, when the U.S. Biological Survey erected nearly 500 slab-wood boxes in central Illinois.

As their natural habitat shrinks, nesting boxes can help wood ducks feel at home Shane Ross · CBC News · Posted: Mar 25, 2018 8:18 AM PDT | Last Updated: March 25, 2018 ...

Wood Ducks are cavity-nesters. Preferred nesting sites are holes in hollow trunks, large branches that result from broken limbs, they also use cavities created by large woodpeckers.

The nest boxes support nesting tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees, titmice, house wrens, and more. To learn more about HCT’s songbird citizen science and find links for nest box design plans ...

To predator-proof my wood duck nesting boxes, I adopted the plan endorsed by the Wood Duck Society. Check out their website www.woodducksociety.com for complete instructions and patterns for ...

Wood ducks will look to nest as early as the next couple weeks, so if you are going to put out a box this year, now is the time. Plans for homemade and pre-built boxes are available online.

Frank explains that duck boxes were introduced in the 1980s when natural habitats were scarce, and wood duck populations were declining.

Mayor Francis Deroo took a walk in the woods – installing Wood Duck nesting boxes in the l’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park. “As a city, we feel this is a great way to encourage biodiversity – ...

Install a duck box or visit Rum Creek to see the efforts in action—Georgia’s wood ducks will thank you. Wings, water and wood: Duck boxes created ahead of nesting season in Central Georgia ...