They did not arrive overnight. Their colonies have been growing since spring—and by late summer, thousands of hungry workers ...

The gorgeous winners of the Audubon Photography Awards are a celebration of the best bird photography and also of the ways ...

Two woodpeckers remain focused around a tree cavity, with one peeking from the nest hole while the other watches from below. This behavior suggests nest monitoring and coordination, helping keep the ...

The Acorn Woodpecker (Acorn Woodpecker) is a species of woodpecker that lives mainly in western North America, and as its name suggests, it is known for skillfully using acorns in its daily life. In ...

A Hidden Camera captured a lesser spotted woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk beside a nesting cavity in a leafy woodland setting. The bird’s black and white plumage and red crown marking are clearly ...

Click here for the original audio. A new study shows how woodpeckers engage muscles throughout their entire bodies and coordinate their breaths, to drill into wood. In March, Here & Now's Scott Tong ...

Hello! I'm Holly Kirkpatrick and I'm covering the City of Buffalo for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Buffalo@wkbw.com BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Contractors working for the City ...

Something changed in your yard. Maybe it happened gradually – fewer shadows crossing the grass, fewer mornings interrupted by actual noise. The feeders are still there. You still scatter seed. But the ...

At the very edges of urbanization, Northern Flicker woodpeckers live in dead palm trees raising their young. Their populations are on the decline throughout the state, especially South Florida. But ...

In a neighborhood on the outskirts of Miami, a red-bellied woodpecker made two individual nests in two neighboring dead palm trees. It picked one. A red-masked parakeet moved into the other. Over the ...

Pileated woodpeckers are among the largest and most interesting indigenous feathered flyers that inhabit Chesapeake’s densely wooded Indian River Park. “They are gorgeous birds. They are actually a ...