A single red-cockaded woodpecker has been found digging a nest at a Columbia area nature preserve that hasn’t documented the species in five decades ...

Q: I was driving by our local lake recently and saw an amazing sight, one adult Canada goose and 15 little goslings. Isn’t it unusual for a goose to have this many babies? A: Yes, it would be highly ...

Nesting birds are a joy to watch, ... The Downy Woodpecker and Red-Bellied Woodpecker in this video are pulling whole hot pepper suet nuggets from this feeder.

A woodpecker is wreaking havoc in Rockport, smashing car windows and mirrors: ‘This thing is huge’ An overzealous pileated woodpecker has broken about 20 car mirrors and one windshield in the ...

CHANG: But this year, he, his friends and neighbors do not love the pileated woodpecker, and it seems for good reason. MOCK: They’re big, and they’re mean, and they don’t like their reflection. KELLY: ...

While pileated woodpeckers are not as common in Massachusetts as the more familiar downy woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, and hairy woodpecker, they are far from rare.

Feeding your birds at this time of year is simply joyful when you see the adults bring their fledglings to the feeders, as we see with the Downy Woodpeckers in this video.

Downy woodpeckers are named for the patch of soft, down feathers on the lower back. Males have a red patch on the back of the head, sometimes divided into two parts by a narrow, vertical black band.

Using a measurement known as "Diameter at Breast Height" (DBH) — the diameter of a tree at about 4 feet off the ground — the researchers found downy and hairy woodpeckers selected aspen with ...

12 Kansas woodpeckers & 2 common in Wichita. Downy & red-bellied woodpeckers are mating in spring. ... Getting rid of woodpeckers between now and nesting time could be a difficult challenge though ...

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