What worries the family most are raiding parties of competing acorn woodpeckers. All across the valley, groups keep an eye on each other's holdings, waiting for an opening to take them over.

The red crowned pileated woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in North America. Learn about their call and sound, size and ...

Meet the woodpecker with a puzzling moniker and a big appetite for suet. Learn what a red-bellied woodpecker looks like and ...

(woodpecker beak drumming) (bird screeching) These two have made a home in a beech tree and are raising a family 80 feet up in the air. They dote on their three little chicks, only eight days old ...

After the woodpecker family leaves its nest cavity in midsummer, the hole becomes available to wood ducks or screech owls, martens, hooded and common mergansers, bats, fishers, flying squirrels ...

The steady tapping of a woodpecker as it drills into a tree for food or a nest site and drums to attract a mate is an unmistakable sound. Between their distinctive sound and the brilliant red ...

She said the woodpecker might be “a little stupid” and is trying to defend its territory and scare away what it sees as competition. The damage coincides with the mating season for pileated ...

Woodpeckers are vandalizing car window and mirrors in the town of Rockport, Mass. ... MOCK: I cook at my family's restaurant right on the water. It's a great place to grow up. I love it here.