I have been feeding woodpeckers suet this winter. A while ago, when I was at Home Depot picking up a shovel for a job, I heard a person ask how to solve the problem of a woodpecker leaving holes ...

Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying for flying insects and gleaning trunks, and they often eat ants (as reflected in the species’ scientific name). Polytypic. Length 9". A boldly patterned ...

Woodpeckers are guardians of ancient broad-leaved woodlands, busy ecosystem engineers and keen consumers of ant porridge.

Depending upon the kind of food you provide or the type of feeder you put out, there is one group of birds that is always fun to see visiting your feeding station. These are the woodpeckers.

There are only a handful of birds that elicit pure excitement and joy when they shows up at your backyard feeding station. The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is our largest woodpecker ...

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.

but a lot more still needs to be done to protect the long-leaf pine forests these woodpeckers and hundreds of other species call home.” They feed primarily on beetles and wood-boring insects but ...