There are only a handful of birds that elicit pure excitement and joy when it shows up at your backyard feeding station. The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is our largest woodpecker ...

There are over 200 species of woodpecker in the world and only four species cache food. Caching food is a process of storing nuts, such as acorns, in a cavity for later consumption. This might be ...

ABC15 went out to see firsthand how SCDNR biologists work to protect the keystone species. "They completely change the system and they add complexity to the system," Lerow said. The woodpeckers ...

I woke up with a splitting headache and bloody sinuses. Every muscle in my body ached and I was utterly exhausted even after ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

Beyond the lack of headaches, there are just so many interesting things about woodpeckers. • First — you can see them year-round here in Ohio, and all species are protected by the Federal ...