A woodpecker feeds its young in its nest (Image: Thomas Swan) Apart from their size, they are distinguished from the lesser ...

It’s nesting season again. For something so basic and so essential to avian life, I believe that the act of nesting is misunderstood by many. Let’s go over some very basic stuff and ...

However, according to Amerindians, the woodpecker spirit animal symbolizes courage, vitality and generosity. With its sound ...

R ecently I had a wonderful opportunity to study and photograph a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting in an old tree and feeding their young. All of this happened because a reader of this ...

Meet the red-headed woodpecker. The mated pair creates a tree cavity. Using no nesting material, the female lays three to five white eggs. You can draw them in with the proper nesting habitat.

Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

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

such as Levaillant’s Woodpecker in North Africa, have provided insights into their nesting preferences and habitat requirements. This research found that these woodpeckers favor live trees with ...

"Robins hold an almost revered place as heralds of spring, but I can't help but unmask them as frauds," columnist Greg ...

While other woodpeckers excavate cavities in dead trees, red-cockaded woodpeckers bore holes for nests solely in living pine trees that are generally 60-80 years old. Unfortunately, long-leaf pine ...

John and Judy Nay of St. Joseph witnessed a female pileated woodpecker extract carpenter ants from a dead silver maple, ...