Understanding why they hammer is the first step in knowing what to do about it. There are four reasons for woodpeckers’ hammering habits: “Drumming is a behavior woodpeckers do to attract mates and ...

The Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) is one of the workaholics of the animal world, but at least it knows how to ...

Acorn woodpeckers of the Southwestern States are especially famous for this behavior and have even been documented to store more than 50,000 acorns in a single tree! To see this phenomenon with your ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker to the cute compact downy woodpecker, they’re a family ...

The bee-versus-hornet behavior has been documented in related ... forest and remove a fallen beech tree with an abandoned black woodpecker cavity in its trunk—a treasured home for western ...

As a collective notion, woodpeckers are one of the more familiar bird families. The general idea is clear enough: medium-sized, black-and-white birds with red highlights that use their beaks to ...

The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company is aiming to restore the fabled species to its natural habitat. In 2021 ...

A: What a tragic tale, and I hadn’t known that broad-wings would engage in such behavior, more frequently ... very much does sound like the result of woodpecker activity, especially by a ...

The aardwolf is a prolific nocturnal hunter, but its diet is vastly different from its bone-crushing hyena relatives. Here’s ...

A thought-provoking image of thousands of birds killed by colliding with the windows of high-rise buildings took the 2024 ...

The North Texas-based foundation aims to fight the "extinction crisis" with initiatives including Colossal Biovault—"the ...