This tamarack tree has been infested with eastern larch beetles. Black-backed woodpeckers are now prying off flakes of bark ...

This handsome woodpecker is a Northern Flicker, famed for their red, heart-shaped marking on the back of their necks. This ...

Like other woodpecker species ... All that pounding seems as if it would cause problems for this tiny bird. But woodpecker species have an adaptation for that as well. It has a long tongue ...

The skull acts like an internal helmet ... and all species are protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. • Both sexes of woodpecker’s peck, or drum. Pecking is also a way of ...

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