Ivory-Billed Woodpecker iStock Often called the “Lord God Bird” due to its impressive size and striking appearance, the ivory ...

Red-cockaded woodpecker numbers plummeted largely due to habitat loss. But decades of collaborative conservation efforts have ...

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

Burnam said in Georgia, there are over 1,500 groups of red-cockaded woodpeckers. “They’re an interesting species,” he said. “They live in a family group, which includes a breeding pair and ...

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

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

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 ...

Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying for flying insects and gleaning trunks, and they often eat ants (as reflected in the species’ scientific name). Polytypic. Length 9". A boldly patterned ...

“Decades of active management by local, state and federal agencies have paid off, but a lot more still needs to be done to protect the long-leaf pine forests these woodpeckers and hundreds of other ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker is among 23 species declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The service has proposed removing them from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be downlisted from an endangered species to a threatened one ...