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 ...

Woodpeckers are important members of the bird community, pounding out nesting holes later used by other cavity-nesting bird species. Tree cavities are hard to find. When the birds are attacking your ...

NEW ORLEANS — The federal government has been asked to consider at least two videos made in recent years as evidence that ivory-billed woodpeckers may still exist. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America's largest woodpecker. Wildlife habitat in congested places is becoming ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker, a bird declared endangered in 1970 and surviving today in 11 states' scattered longleaf pine forests, has recovered enough to relax its federal protection, officials said ...

After decades of searches around the state and southeastern U.S., the Holy Grail of North American birds was among 23 species declared extinct last week. This undated still image taken from video and ...

Is it just me or does the world seem to have grown a bit larger since the announcement of several recent confirmed sightings of an ivory-billed woodpecker? The ornithological implications are enormous ...

One of the largest species of American woodpeckers, Lewis’s woodpecker is a large North American species that ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis, one of the explorers who ...

Readers in Montgomery County are concerned about Texas Senate Bill 1964, filed at the behest of Texas A&M University to allow construction of educational and research facilities in W. G. Jones State ...

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo, a red-cockaded woodpecker looks to a biologist as it is released back into in a long leaf pine forest at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. A bird declared ...

If you see a red-headed woodpecker during your Independence Day weekend outings, call it by one of its folk names, patriot bird or flag bird. The red-headed woodpecker’s entire head and neck are ...