The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened.

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 ...

Bats, screech owls and many other animals live in holes in dead or living trees, or overwinter nestled deep in the furrows of their bark.

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 ...

Red-headed woodpeckers are around us after all. When I went out with three local birders during the annual Christmas Bird Count Dec. 19, one of the species they were looking for was the red-headed ...

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

Tennessee’s wildlife and environmental agencies plan to bring back a species no longer found in the state: the red-cockaded ...

Q: My ash tree has been undergoing emerald ash borer treatment for several years. Does the chemical injection affect the woodpeckers and nuthatches? I hope I’m not inadvertently poisoning them.

One of Southwest Florida's most popular bird species is growing in population after struggling for several decades. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker ...