The red-bellied woodpecker has a bright red head and a slightly pink lower belly, but that’s not all that makes this bird ...

Pileated woodpeckers are among the largest and most interesting indigenous feathered flyers that inhabit Chesapeake’s densely ...

A red-headed woodpecker, named Willie Wood, was once the cartoon mascot of WOOD TV8. Now, it's a vulnerable species in the ...

Pileated woodpeckers are an iconic woodpecker, Woody the Woodpecker made flesh; they are crow-sized with striking black and white markings, both male and female bear a flashy red crest. Large and ...

Now appearing at a bird feeder near you: the hairy woodpecker. It’s common, it’s cool, and it’s often misidentified because it looks so much like its smaller distant cousin, the downy woodpecker.

A few years ago I wrote a book entitled, “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?” It was a huge hit and became the best selling book of all time, with that exact title. Since then, I have been thinking ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

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 ...

This isn't the first tree he's damaged in this woman's yard.

Through readers' comments and my own observations, I have been tracking with interest the northward movement of the Red-bellied Woodpecker's territory. They have been established for quite some time ...

Visual mimicry lets the helmeted woodpecker (Dryocopus galeatus) live on the threatened Atlantic forest turf of two bigger birds -- the lineated Dryocopus lineatus and robust (Campephilus robustus) ...

Steve Shunk’s involvement with serious birding started simply enough. “One of my colleagues who was a birder handed me a pair of binoculars and said, ‘Try this, you’ll like it.’ ” That moment led to a ...