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 ...

Lately, my home in the country has been all a whirl with the sights and sounds of one of my favorite birds. Few birds can rival the striking beauty of the red-headed woodpecker. With a brilliant ...

For a region without woods, the Red River Valley has a lot of woodpeckers. Probably, every little patch of trees has woodpeckers, and they can be found in winter in fields of standing corn. Those ...

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP – After reading about the proposed 572-unit housing development near Winnepeg Avenue and the role the red-headed woodpecker – a threatened species in New Jersey – might play in ...

Our region’s woodpeckers may be simultaneously praised for their biological control of grubs and other insect pests yet maligned for perceived or actual damage that they cause to trees and various man ...

When Brian Shema began taking part in the Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count more than two decades ago, red-bellied woodpeckers were a very rare sight. The red-headed bird’s historical ...

Record numbers of bald eagles, peregrine falcons, ravens and red-headed woodpeckers showed up for the Audubon Christmas Bird ...

Two facts generally are known about the red-bellied woodpecker. One is that its belly is not red. This is undeniable; you can see it with your eyes. The other is that its range is the southeastern ...

I began my bird feeders around the middle of October this year. This is a regular beginning time and the available sunflower seeds were quickly discovered and eaten by local birds. The usual ...