Remarkable footage captures the moment a red-headed woodpecker evicts a starling squatting in its nest by yanking it out of a tree trunk. Woodpeckers and starlings are cavity nesters, meaning they ...

Producer Ann Johnson Prum and cinematographer Mark Carroll travel to western Poland to film the nest of the elusive Black Woodpecker. Working with local Biologist Romuald Mikusek they find a nest over ...

Why does a woodpecker peck? For several reasons, actually. That familiar drumming sound, charming to some yet maddening to others, is the result of frenetic pecking that can amount to 20 pecks per ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two Pileated Woodpecker chicks are getting ready to emerge from their nest on an Atlantic Beach utility pole after a JEA crew saved a woodpecker nest last year, a JEA news release ...

What Does a Pileated Woodpecker Look Like? Pileated woodpeckers are large, graceful birds, and may be easier to attract than you thought. As big as a crow, the pileated woodpecker is the largest ...

As spring progresses, you may hear that ever-familiar sound: peck, peck, peck. While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home.

DEAR JOAN: We have a woodpecker family that has made a home in our apple tree. I could not have drilled a more perfect circle than the woodpecker did. There was “sawdust” everywhere around the base of ...

"No, this is not a bird; it is a jackhammer with feathers!" That's how an irritated caller described a woodpecker to me. Her romantic notion of living in harmony with nature was shattered with every ...

What do you do when a woodpecker adopts your home? Because all native bird species are protected by federal laws, woodpeckers cannot be trapped and removed in the same way that one can dispatch a ...

As Southern California Edison replaces power poles throughout its service territory, including La Cañada Flintridge and neighboring Altadena, workers are being trained to keep an eye peeled for bird ...