I t’s ‘woodpecker heaven’ around the cottage at the moment with Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming and sadly the yaffling of the Green Woodpecker ‘we used to hear as vanis ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened.

This common desert woodpecker replaces the closely related Nuttall’s in arid regions; the 2 species are known to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp.

But it is worth listening carefully to the drumming for one that is subtly different and might lead you to a much rarer bird, ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened. The woodpecker once lived across ...

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.

To celebrate the beginning of spring in the Gaelic calendar, ornithologist Seán Ronayne is across the schedule on RTÉ lyric ...