I’m a big fan of chicken feet. Chicken feet are the flavor-giving ingredient in my mother’s matzo ball soup, and the first item I swipe from dim sum carts. But I’d never come across duck feet on a ...

Dec. 10—We were driving across the Mount Desert Island causeway the other day when I spotted a group of ducks bobbing in the ocean waves. Flashes of white had me guessing that they were either ...

Have you ever watched a bird wading in icy water and flinched? How can they possibly do that without getting frostbite in their feet? Ducks and other waterfowl have very special circulation in their ...

Watching a mallard duck waddle across a frozen pond completely unfazed by the cold march, I wondered at how I would feel doing the same thing in bare feet. I suspect that pain and misery aside, it ...

This duck is named Buttercup. He was born with a backwards left foot. Buttercup lives in Arlington, Tennessee at the Feathered Angels Waterfowl Sanctuary, where owner Mike Garey decided not only to ...