Woodpeckers are important members of the bird community, pounding out nesting holes later used by other cavity-nesting bird species. Tree cavities are hard to find. When the birds are attacking your ...

With fascination and a rueful bit of worry, Wendy and Bob Heit have watched for the past couple of weeks as two pileated woodpeckers chiseled a big hole in a tree at their place in Tennyson, off Elbow ...

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 pound ...

Even though it is April now and spring is officially here, the windows on the back of our house look out over a field of snow that disappears into the woods and only begins to break up when it reaches ...

My mom was an avid, but low-key, birder. She loved sitting in the breakfast room watching the birdfeeders as much as she loved going off on official birding excursions. She would get just as excited ...

Listen up, class! Today's column is a primer on woodpeckers. This is a timely lesson because several varieties of woodpeckers are winter residents of the Red River Valley. If you pay attention, you're ...

Pileated woodpeckers are the magnificent giants of our local head-hammering world. While our most common downy woodpeckers weigh less than an ounce, our pileateds can weigh almost a pound. Worldwide, ...

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 pound ...