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 ...

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 ...

The post How a Desert Woodpecker Turns a Saguaro Cactus into a Nursery appeared first on A-Z Animals. A brash, noisy woodpecker with zebra stripes down its back has found an unusual place to call home ...

A male downy woodpecker pecks at a suet feeder. Watch for a variety of woodpecker species in the woods and at feeders this week. Did you know there are more than 200 species of woodpeckers in the ...

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 ...

It's noisier these days. And woodpeckers are partly to blame. While they're fairly subdued in winter, woodpeckers burst forth in early spring -- but not with song. At this time of year, woodpeckers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane force winds that blew through Augusta on Sept. 27 packed a punch strong enough to impact wildlife habitats for ...

Woodpeckers are named after their habit of tapping and pecking noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. There are over 180 species of woodpeckers that come in a great variety of shapes and colours.

Winter finally arrived in mid-January, but warm or cold, winter is a good time to spot woodpeckers in the leafless woods or at a birdfeeder. Downy woodpeckers (Picoides pubescens) live in ...

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.