WOODPECKERS have unique habits that place them into a category of avian critters who conduct their life and food gathering ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two Pileated Woodpecker chicks are getting ready to emerge from their nest on an Atlantic Beach utility pole after a JEA crew saved a woodpecker nest last year, a JEA news release ...

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 ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker is a conservation success story, but it still needs our help. The red-cockaded woodpecker is a conservation success story, but it still needs our help. It relies on living ...

Woodpeckers are fascinating birds that not only are great to watch, but they can also be very helpful for gardeners as they ...

Producer Ann Johnson Prum and cinematographer Mark Carroll travel to western Poland to film the nest of the elusive Black Woodpecker. Working with local Biologist Romuald Mikusek they find a nest over ...

Pileated Woodpeckers begin nesting in the spring in excavated cavities in dead trees. The male Pileated does most of the excavating, and this can take from three to six weeks of persistent hammering ...

Woodpeckers help keep garden pests in check, enrich the soil as they forage, and are easy to attract, as all you need is the ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that return ...

DEAR JOAN: We have a woodpecker family that has made a home in our apple tree. I could not have drilled a more perfect circle than the woodpecker did. There was “sawdust” everywhere around the base of ...

The pileated woodpecker is an impressive bird in many ways. A forceful reminder of this came at me the other day, when a pileated woodpecker appeared in front of my windshield. The bird was northbound ...

Woodpeckers are natural pest controllers that feed on insects which can harm trees, lawns and flowerbeds, making them ...