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

Go to the Woodpecker Wonderland Festival at Camp Sherman and watch the birds do it instead. Paradise Birding has got a very impressive lineup set for June 5-7, Friday-Sunday, centered on one of Oregon ...

How do downy woodpeckers—North America’s smallest woodpeckers—manage to drill holes into the tough bark of trees? A paper published November 6 in the Journal of Experimental Biology offers some clues: ...

Feel like banging your head against something hard? Don't! Go to the Woodpecker Wonderland Festival at Camp Sherman and watch the birds do it instead.Paradise Birding has got a very impressive lineup ...

NEW ORLEANS — The federal government has been asked to consider at least two videos made in recent years as evidence that ivory-billed woodpeckers may still exist. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Discover which woodpeckers mate for life, and which pair up and then split up. Also learn how long pileated woodpeckers live.

Don't be fooled by that soft-looking down and pretty faces – woodpeckers are tough, tree-pounding beasts who simultaneous harden their whole bodies like a hammer and grunt as they drill away with ...

The two years Princeton senior Joe Kawalec spent studying the natural camouflage of the ubiquitous downy woodpecker oddly enough began and ended the same way — tracing the outlines of birds. In ...

Editor's note: Wildlife Recovery Association's Barb and Joe Rogers ask that supporters request that Michigan Electric Transmission Company find a route for high voltage power lines that avoids the ...

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Invasive American minks may threaten the largest woodpecker species in South America, according to new research. The Magellanic woodpecker — a relative of the extinct ivory-billed woodpecker — lives ...