Figuring out how woodpeckers avoid brain damage has inspired humans working in fields like crash safety and helmet design.

You can vote on the new wildlife faces of our bank notes. Let’s dive in to the Bank of England’s shortlist of 18 ...

A red-headed woodpecker perches on a tree in Clifton Park "a bit ago," birder Janice Tefft says. A pair of red-headed ...

Pileated woodpeckers are among the largest and most interesting indigenous feathered flyers that inhabit Chesapeake’s densely wooded Indian River Park. “They are gorgeous birds. They are actually a ...

How does nature conservation in the UK make a difference to global conservation efforts? Leigh Morris, Director of International at The Wildlife Trusts, explains more as the International Day of ...

For the first time in more than three decades the lesser spotted woodpecker has been recorded in woodlands near East Grinstead. The lesser spotted is the rarest of Britain's woodpeckers and it is ...

Two of the more elusive animals in my backyard are the pileated woodpecker and the carpenter ant.I rarely see either, yet I have ample evidence of their presence. This winter, pileated woodpeckers ...

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The red-cockaded woodpecker was last spotted in the state in 1994. The Tennessee Wildlife Resrource Agency hopes to reintroduce the birds in 2028. Red-cockaded woodpecker population declined rapidly ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker has lost nearly all of its habitat in the southeastern United States, but an Air Force range in Florida is part of an emerging initiative to relocate besieged species on ...