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  • Bob Taylor started building wood-duck boxes in the 1990s with his hunting buddy Richard Coleman.

    Heroes of Conservation 2010

  • Bloomington, Ill. This central-Illinois group has installed 300 wood-duck and mallard nesting structures across the state, a project that helped two local teens attain Eagle Scout status.

    Heroes of Conservation: Chapters 2009

  • Adopting a fish hatchery, constructing wood-duck boxes, and planting grasses for ringnecks

    Heroes of Conservation 2010

  • You knew Brown was a total non-comp, a wood-duck who'd sell off the nation's gold and rob its pension funds and that pretty boy Blair was a 'how high?' man whenever you said, 'Jump!'

    [you bastards] manouevering us to serfdom 2009

  • You knew Brown was a total non-comp, a wood-duck who'd sell off the nation's gold and rob its pension funds and that pretty boy Blair was a 'how high?' man whenever you said, 'Jump!'

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • You can, however, call to the ones that land out of range with a wood-duck whistle.

    Waterfowl Hunting the Early Season: Fall Teal and Wood Ducks 2005

  • Essentially a Hare's Ear with long wood-duck tails and a turkey-feather back, it matches the robust natural nymphs perfectly.

    Trout Fishing MVP's--Nymphs and Wets 2002

  • After resting awhile we proceeded on with the cart, tracing down the watercourse over a very rough and stony road on which the cart was upset, but without any serious damage, and passing several very large and fine water-holes with many teal and wood-duck upon them.

    Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

  • A rotting wood-duck box on a post at the end of the cove stood as a reminder that turtles ruled this part of the pond: no chick raised in that nest had survived to adulthood in my lifetime.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • A rotting wood-duck box on a post at the end of the cove stood as a reminder that turtles ruled this part of the pond: no chick raised in that nest had survived to adulthood in my lifetime.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

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