Recent cold temperatures and a few snowfalls have let us know again that we are still immersed in winter. The frozen ground goes deep enough to cause water and septic problems for many Northlanders.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood.

Walking through Ballyannan Woods recently, I was stopped in my tracks by a sound that felt oddly out of place. A sharp, rapid ...

Recordings of the distinctive double-rap sound of ivory-billed woodpeckers, which scientists once believed were extinct, were posted on the Internet yesterday in a further demonstration that the ...

To a woodpecker’s brain, drumming against a tree is a lot like birdsong. The findings reveal substantial similarities in the brain circuitry behind hearing and executing these two major acoustic ...

Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from Arkansas of possible calls and drumming by one or more ivory-billed woodpeckers. The release will fuel a new round in the ...