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

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 ...

Picture a crisp morning in the Nilgiris hills or the lush forests of the Western Ghats, where the sharp sound of a woodpecker ...

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 ...

Woodpeckers are somewhat famous for their habitual act of slamming their faces into trees, but does this activity cause any brain damage to the birds? Citing a new study published in the journal PLOS ...

Researchers discover how woodpecker skull geometry keeps powerful pecks stable, allowing the birds to hammer wood thousands of times safely.

"No, this is not a bird; it is a jackhammer with feathers!" That's how an irritated caller described a woodpecker to me. Her romantic notion of living in harmony with nature was shattered with every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood.

US LIVE FROM ROCKPORT RIGHT NOW. EMILY ED MARIA. THIS PESKY WOODPECKER IS THE NEIGHBOR. YOU JUST CAN’T STAND. AND WHILE HE MAY BE BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT, HE IS A MENACE UP HERE ON SQUAM HILL ROAD. HE’S ...

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 ...