Here’s what to do if a woodpecker starts pecking on your house.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woodpeckers also may find a knot hole in wood siding and think it looks like a great place to start excavating for a nest. Or they ...

Starting in late fall, I feed the woodpeckers suet cakes. A while ago, I was at Home Depot picking up a shovel for a job when I heard someone asking how to fix a woodpecker that was leaving holes in ...

Introduction -- Taxonomy -- Distribution -- Anatomy and morphology -- Habitat -- Behaviour -- Breeding -- Plumage and moult -- Food and foraging -- Flight -- Calls ...

Dr James Whitehead and a team from the University of Sussex set up 37 acoustic monitoring stations across Sussex and took ...

Woodpeckers aren’t trying to be musicians, but they are drummers. You may have heard the familiar drumming of a woodpecker before. They are omnivorous consumers of insects, tree sap and nectar, along ...

You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...