Starting about halfway through the month of May, I noticed that the woodpeckers that come to my feeders were really doing a number on the peanuts that I put out for them. Presented in a feeder that is ...

The Downy Woodpecker and Red-Bellied Woodpecker in this video are pulling whole hot pepper suet nuggets from this feeder. Birds will readily eat hot pepper foods, while mammals like squirrels ...

A keystone species is one that plays a disproportionately large role in maintaining the structure and biodiversity of its ecosystem. The most classic keystone species in North America is the ...

So you research exactly what kind of animal or what kind of bird it was and then you read a little bit about it and you find out things like Pileated woodpeckers are the largest woodpecker in ...

Come June, Blue Ridge Audubon Chapter President John Koon said visitors can expect a wide variety of birds, from nesting green herons and tree swallows, to pileated woodpeckers, chickadees ...

The Red-Bellied Woodpecker is a common visitor at backyard feeders, but do you know how to distinguish male from female? This video shows a great comparison of the two. Notice that the red on the ...

Merlin identified it as a pileated woodpecker. “It’s got a beautiful red crown,” Montero told the group as they stood on a path near a gazebo and pond, “and it’s flying toward us.” ...

Each morning, after making coffee, my wife and I fill the distinctive, barn-red bird feeder that hangs down ... d think it would be the large, muscular woodpecker, which can hang upside-down ...

Most experts dismissed the periodic ivory-bill reports in the United States as mistaken sightings of its widespread but smaller cousin, the pileated woodpecker. On those occasions when a sighting ...