Tami Gingrich explains the characteristics that make woodpeckers perfectly suited to their lifestyle and the benfits of ...

“The unique coloring of a red head and striped back makes it stand out in all seasons.” Learn how to identify a pileated woodpecker. The mated pair excavates a nesting cavity in an old stump ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker to the cute compact downy woodpecker, they’re a family ...

The red-bellied woodpecker is the familiar zebra-backed woodpecker of eastern woodlands and towns. Monotypic (or up to 4 weakly defined ssp. sometimes recognized). Length 9". All red-bellied ...

A common visitor at our backyard bird feeders, red-bellied woodpeckers enjoy eating and caching seeds of all kinds.

Male hairies are attentive parents, participating in all phases of nesting and chick rearing. Hairy woodpeckers get their name from long filamentous feathers on their white backs. However ...

A distinct knocking sound could be heard in the southern red oak behind me. It stopped briefly before starting up again, this ...