One of Southwest Florida's most popular bird species is growing in population after struggling for several decades. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers make rows of holes in trees to eat the sap that flows out and insects that get trapped in it. (Clay Wollney) Seven species of woodpeckers have been seen on Staten Island.

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 ...

Winter is the best time to watch woodpeckers at work. Since most trees have shed their leaves, woodpeckers are easy to see as they hunt, peck and drill along tree trunks and large branches. At least ...

Throughout the day, I have been watching the antics of several woodpeckers going about their activities in my backyard just outside Little Rock. A downy woodpecker, one of the smallest, tamest and ...