When the class topic is woodpeckers, the No. 1 question students ask is how these birds are able to slam their heads against a tree without damaging their brains. Although they are not common, there ...

It seems like some expert is always announcing that ivory-billed woodpeckers are A) definitely extinct, or B) they definitely still exist somewhere. Ivory-billed woodpeckers were considered birds of ...

There’s a woodpecker outside my window. In the past few days it — he? she? they? — has been drilling at some tree with the gusto of a pothole repairman jackhammering at the concrete. Rat-a-tat-tat, ...

A red-bellied woodpecker alights at a feeder. And, yes, it's called a red-bellied woodpecker even though its belly is not so red as the coloring on its head. At most, its belly has a faint overlay of ...