When spring returns, mallard ducks are a common sight on the water. In any season, you can find them in duck decoy collections and auctions.

Every time I attend a local auction, my wife accuses me of bringing home a hand-carved wooden duck decoy. We have a bunch in our collection scattered around the house. Most of them are probably not ...

Gary Lipham has carved just enough wooden duck decoys to understand how much skill and creativity the craft demands. “I wanted to have an appreciation for carving, so I carved a little bit,” said ...

OGUNQUIT — A world famous antique decoy auction firm that will feature the "creme de la creme" of antique decoy ducks and related arts and accessories, will hold an auction July 26-27 at the Cliff ...

Good things absolutely do come in small packages.

Hand-crafted wooden duck decoys, with their intricate carvings and painted designs, attract more than just unsuspecting ducks that mistake them for the real thing and end up getting bagged by hunters.

Hand-carved wooden ducks were assembled in neat rows on 380 tables filling the large hall at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles last Saturday. Ducks in shades of brown and gray, and with colorful trim ...

Members of the Long Island Decoy Collectors Association who gathered for their monthly meeting at Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library, are in many ways, birds of a feather. Old enough to have hunted ...

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