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

At home in mature forests, pileated woodpeckers thrive when surrounded by dead trees and downed logs. They’re known for drilling large rectangular holes into tree trunks and thick branches as ...

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 ...

smaller woodpecker—the pileated—which remains common in much of North America. Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at trees, and this sound may be a crucial ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker ... their home tree by drilling thousands of acorns ...

Trail cam photos of blackbirds and red-winged blackbirds in southern Illinois and notes on pileated woodpeckers in the Forest ...