Aside from perhaps experiencing a tidal wave a hundred feet high crashing onto a city, there is likely nothing in human ...

A hidden wildlife camera captured a stunning close-up of a great spotted woodpecker resting on an aged tree branch deep within the forest. With its striking black-and-white plumage and vivid red ...

Pileated woodpeckers are an iconic woodpecker, Woody the Woodpecker made flesh; they are crow-sized with striking black and white markings, both male and female bear a flashy red crest. Large and ...

Now appearing at a bird feeder near you: the hairy woodpecker. It’s common, it’s cool, and it’s often misidentified because it looks so much like its smaller distant cousin, the downy woodpecker.

A few years ago I wrote a book entitled, “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?” It was a huge hit and became the best selling book of all time, with that exact title. Since then, I have been thinking ...

A woman went viral on TikTok after a pileated woodpecker went to town on a tree in her yard in Brewer, Maine. Meghan Snook told Storyful she recorded this footage of the bird “repeatedly pecking and ...

From their tree-climbing abilities to extraordinary hearing, there are plenty of interesting facts to learn about the woodpecker family. The post 18 Amazing Woodpecker Facts You Should Know appeared ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

Steve Shunk’s involvement with serious birding started simply enough. “One of my colleagues who was a birder handed me a pair of binoculars and said, ‘Try this, you’ll like it.’ ” That moment led to a ...

Visual mimicry lets the helmeted woodpecker (Dryocopus galeatus) live on the threatened Atlantic forest turf of two bigger birds -- the lineated Dryocopus lineatus and robust (Campephilus robustus) ...

Remarkable footage captures the moment a red-headed woodpecker evicts a starling squatting in its nest by yanking it out of a tree trunk. Woodpeckers and starlings are cavity nesters, meaning they ...

Through readers' comments and my own observations, I have been tracking with interest the northward movement of the Red-bellied Woodpecker's territory. They have been established for quite some time ...