Woodpeckers have extraordinarily long tongues to locate and capture various hard-to-reach insects living inside the wood of trees.

Woodpeckers drumming their beaks into trees are using the same part of the brain as songbirds learning to sing a tune, a new study has found. The bird's forebrain contains specialised pecking regions ...

Red-bellied woodpeckers don’t always tap on trees for food. Sometimes, it is to find a mate. Seven species of woodpeckers are native to Pennsylvania and can be found in all areas of the state, from ...

Red-cockaded woodpeckers, Picoides borealis, are the only birds that excavate cavities in living pine trees. Each woodpecker might spend years excavating its own roost in the live tree – which is a ...

Foresters are calling it the most destructive tree pest to ever invade North America, and its march of devastation continues. Emerald ash borer has now spread to 35 states, killing hundreds of ...

We are seeing some damage to our white birch trees, both in die-back and woodpecker damage. Most white birch trees will show some winter kill, namely at the top of the tree, and you will have to cut ...

Despite the surprises Mother Nature may send our way in spring, such as unseasonable temperatures and snow in March and April, at least by May her moods are calmer. For gardeners, this means there's ...

Two downy woodpeckers and a barred owl were among the 94animals admitted to the von Arx Wildlife Hospital at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida last week. Other admissions include a black-crowned ...

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In a sort of ecological trade-off, conservationists headed into the Arkansas woods Thursday to kill dozens of trees in hopes of helping the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that up until recently was ...