Memorial Day is here, and with it, plenty of event momentum: floral installations bloom across downtown Portland, Pickles baseball returns, and the Mercury‘s got enough highballs lined up to make ...

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 ...

A new study shows how woodpeckers engage muscles throughout their entire bodies and coordinate their breaths to drill into wood. Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Nicholas Antonson, post-doctorate ...

For the first time in more than three decades the lesser spotted woodpecker has been recorded in woodlands near East Grinstead. The lesser spotted is the rarest of Britain's woodpeckers and it is ...

Do you hear that? The avian orchestra is rehearsing in anticipation of another spring, with more notes sounded each day after winter’s relative silence. In the percussion section, the male woodpeckers ...

Two of the more elusive animals in my backyard are the pileated woodpecker and the carpenter ant.I rarely see either, yet I have ample evidence of their presence. This winter, pileated woodpeckers ...

Woodpeckers peck trees and wood searching for insects and also to communicate with each other (file photo) Power cuts in a Co Clare town have been caused by woodpeckers pecking electricity poles and ...

Woodpeckers have been blamed for more than 10 power cuts in the Clare town of Sixmilebridge in just over a year, with some of the outages lasting more than 24 hours, a TD has established. Fine Gael’s ...

For just a moment I had no idea what was happening. It was warm for a winter day, and I was enjoying the peace and quiet as I meandered through withered summer grass at the edge of the dense woods of ...

Woodpeckers operate at an extreme level, boring through solid wood with forces more than 30 times their own weight and drilling up to 13 times a second. How do they never miss a beat while head ...

“And you tell him if he don’t show up himself, he ain’t nothing but a yellow-bellied sapsucking coward.”–Denzel Washington as Sam Chisolm in the 2016 remake of "The Magnificent Seven" Arguably our ...