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 ...

A bird that serves as the catalyst to pique someone’s interest in the feathered world is termed a “spark bird.” The red-headed woodpecker was the spark that launched Alexander Wilson’s career. Wilson ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The bird of the week this week is the red-headed woodpecker. The Red-headed Woodpecker is one of our most boldly colored birds, with a bright red head, snow white chest and belly, ...

The Clark family feeders have lured in all seven of the 29 species of woodpeckers that reside at least part of the year in Central Missouri — downy, red-bellied, hairy, flicker, yellow-bellied ...

Not the red-bellied woodpecker with a red cap, black-and-white stripes on its back and a bit of rouge on its belly. That woodpecker is so common that it shows up in nearly everybody’s backyard. Male ...

A bright flash of a red head in the summer sun followed by black and white wings, and you know you have seen a woodpecker. The red-headed woodpecker, red-belllied woodpecker and pilieated woodpecker ...

The rare and gorgeous sighting of a red-headed woodpecker was made in New Hampshire this week.This one was a juvenile which began to be seen in November near Adams Point and is still around this ...

Several readers have written about seeing for the first time a red-bellied woodpecker at their suet feeders and wondered if it is a rare bird. It is definitely a quite striking bird, easily noticed, ...

The red-headed woodpecker is a near-threatened species and one that had never been seen by birders Mark and Roseann Foster of Alton Bay.But they were able to check that bird off their list, last week.

In recent columns I have discussed the smallest and largest of the woodpeckers in the region, as well as focused a spotlight on the oddball yellow-bellied sapsucker and the medium-sized Northern ...

Easily identifiable by their quick pecking on wood, several woodpeckers visit our area year round. Known for their stiff tail that supports their body when eating or excavating, woodpeckers are among ...