Because woodpeckers live in every treed habitat in North America, their life stories are in many ways the stories of our wildlands. Every woodpecker alters its own surroundings in ways that create ...

The northern flicker is an unusual woodpecker that delights us while it spends the winter in much of South Texas, from San Antonio to Houston. One might assume the bird, which is among the largest of ...

Of the 15 bird species that are regularly visiting our yard this summer, none delights me more than the red-headed woodpecker. Often confused with the red-bellied woodpecker, which is the same size ...

Not the red-bellied woodpecker with a red cap, black-and-white stripes on its back and a bit of rouge on its belly. That woodpecker is so common that it shows up in nearly everybody’s backyard. Male ...

After decades of searches around the state and southeastern U.S., the Holy Grail of North American birds was among 23 species declared extinct last week. This undated still image taken from video and ...

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo, a red-cockaded woodpecker looks to a biologist as it is released back into in a long leaf pine forest at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. A bird declared ...

About 3 a.m. on a chilly fall Friday, senior biologist Don Schwab stood on a ladder in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, bird in hand. His goal: quickly deposit the endangered ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker, a bird declared endangered in 1970 and surviving today in 11 states' scattered longleaf pine forests, has recovered enough to relax its federal protection, officials said ...

Woodpeckers are important members of the bird community, pounding out nesting holes later used by other cavity-nesting bird species. Tree cavities are hard to find. When the birds are attacking your ...