Aside from perhaps experiencing a tidal wave a hundred feet high crashing onto a city, there is likely nothing in human ...

This giant woodpecker is absolutely demolishing a tree with the confidence of somebody who personally owns the property.

Woodpeckers are remarkable birds, and in our area none is more remarkable than the pileated woodpecker. This is the largest, by far, of the six woodpecker species that occur here regularly, nearly the ...

Pileated woodpeckers are among the largest and most interesting indigenous feathered flyers that inhabit Chesapeake’s densely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gatineau, Que., has selected the pileated woodpecker as the its official bird. According to a news release announcing the decision ...

Woodpeckers are cool birds and fun to watch. If you have trees in your yard, then you have a good chance of attracting woodpeckers. You don’t need big trees — scrubby juniper and piñon are just fine.

A few years ago I wrote a book entitled, “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?” It was a huge hit and became the best selling book of all time, with that exact title. Since then, I have been thinking ...