As a rather noisy bird with repetitive movement, the woodpecker is sometimes poorly viewed and considered as a nuisance more than anything else. However, according to Amerindians, the woodpecker ...

It’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 vanished completely ...

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened. The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) once lived from Virginia south to ...

That said, some solutions definitely work better than others and finding the best bird deterrents can require a lot of trial ...

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.

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.