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

What Does a Pileated Woodpecker ... still sport a bright red crest. The male’s crest extends to the top of the bill. Learn how to identify a hairy woodpecker. You won’t mistake this bird ...

The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...

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 ...