By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff As many hours as I have spent in the woods over the years, I have never seen a ...

Amidst a comeback for the red-cockaded woodpecker — the South’s not-always-welcome neighbor — a new legal status and ...

Photographer’s description: “My wife and I were walking through Seward Park when we heard a pileated woodpecker. Much to my ...

Woodpeckers help and hurt trees. They help by devouring insects that injure trees, including ants, caterpillars and borers. They hurt trees because their pecking damages tree bark, leaving ...

Shiny, reflective items placed around the outside of the home have also been known to keep woodpeckers away. Things like ...

Pileated woodpeckers forage for their favorite meal, carpenter ants, by digging large, rectangular holes in trees. These holes can be so large that they weaken smaller trees or even cause them to ...

Now that we've entered the new spring season, we may be looking for the migrants who will live with us. Searching the yards, we can see some birds that did not winter here but are present now. Along ...

Red-cockaded woodpeckers have been the focus of conservation efforts, including habitat restoration, artificial nest box placement and prescribed burning.

This common desert woodpecker replaces the closely related Nuttall’s in arid regions; the 2 species are known to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp.

We have 10 RCW (red-cockaded woodpecker) groups there.” There was significant tree loss, Burnam said. “The areas with the RCW cluster sites and the areas they use to forage, damage was ...

The European green woodpecker sitting on tree trunk The green woodpecker is the largest of the three, about the same size as a collared dove, As their name suggests they have bright mossy green ...