Everyone dreams of making a living doing something they absolutely love. For Jeff Duxbury, it’s his life and has been for the better part of forty years. He’s the owner of Dux’ Dekes Decoy Company in ...

SPALDING — The three tiny, feathery curls on the miniature mallard duck’s tail are proof Spalding resident Joe Jonas uses a light-as-a-feather touch with a heated razor blade as he carves and shapes ...

NEW VIENNA - Steve Kerper's passions for waterfowl and trees find expression in hand-carved wooden ducks that he calls decoys but which are actually objects of art. “I'm a duck nut and a tree nut,” ...

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Search Google for “duck carving template.” Lots of images will come up. Choose one you like with a crisp side and top view of the duck’s body and head shapes; the two will be carved separately. A ...

It’s pretty calm and quiet around Russ Dedekind’s West Lawn home, even though he and his brother share it with hundreds of wooden ducks in various stages of becoming decoys. They must be pretty good ...

The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys. By Julia Halperin The painter Anne Buckwalter, 38, says she doesn’t like clutter, but she makes an exception for bird ...

Bob Lis never knows quite what to expect when a customer walks into his Long Grove art gallery. “It happens more than you’d think where people think I’m a taxidermist,” he said. “Customers will come ...

A carved chipping sparrow on display as part of Claude and Ethel Kemper “The Birds of My Hollow” collection at Glenville State College’s Robert F. Kidd Library. (Photo Provided) GLENVILLE — A ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...