Understanding a woodpecker’s best tool first requires understanding its anatomy. Its tongue can reach up to five inches outside its beak, enabling it to reach inside deep holes and crevices.

While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home. They drill into siding for various reasons, including feeding ...

Pileated woodpeckers are the largest of the common woodpeckers found in most of North America. These crow-sized birds present a memorable sight with their zebra-striped heads and necks ...

This conspicuous clown-faced woodpecker of western oak woodlands is remarkable for its social habits, living over much of its range in communal groups of up to 4 or more breeding males and as many ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker to the cute compact downy woodpecker, they’re a family ...

The Fayetteville Woodpeckers, a Single-A affiliate of the Houston Astros, kick off their season at home on Friday with a fireworks show. Tickets for the game range from $13 to $29 with discounts ...

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.