The whistling sound of beating wings moves through the forest as a common goldeneye duck lands in a nest box mounted to the side of a tree near the Moose Creek Dam in North Pole, Alaska.

This time of the season, the eggs are hatching. Alaska biologists are monitoring wild common goldeneye ducks in the Chena River State Recreation Area. The project started in 1994 to determine ...

As other ducks boisterously announce their presence ... and look for the white marking in the face. Compared to the common goldeneye the adult male will have a white crescent behind the bill ...