This week’s featured creature, the downy woodpecker, is a bird that is as common in suburban yards as it is in rural areas. It is so named for the downy white feathers on its back between the wings ...

If you’re seeking a New Year’s resolution role model, consider the downy woodpecker. Legendary ornithologist John James Audubon had this to say: “The downy woodpecker .??.??. is perhaps not surpassed ...

If it weren't for owls, I'd be a woodpecker guy. Like owls, woodpeckers have some amazing adaptations. The downy woodpecker, our country's smallest woodpecker, can be found across the continental ...

Even as the cold winds come down from the north, a few birds still remain in the Midland area, including the downy woodpecker. The downy woodpecker is the smallest of the northern woodpeckers. They ...

A cable company repairman walked up to our house, stopped and listened to a soft but resonant staccato drumming up in a tree. "What is that?," he asked my wife. She explained it was a downy woodpecker ...

GRAND FORKS — Lately, I’ve been watching downy woodpeckers chase each other around. At first, I imagined this might be courtship behavior, but I was disabused of that notion by the the experts I ...

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 ...

Before we bought our house in the early 2000s, a home inspector noted woodpecker damage on the wood-framed fireplace chase. He didn’t have to dig deep to discover this. Not only was a yellow scare eye ...

How does a small black and white bird, weighing only about an ounce, drive some homeowners around the bend? The culprit — the downy woodpecker — problematically lives up to its name: These diminutive ...

A downy woodpecker shreds the hollow stems of poison hemlock to feast on tumbling flower beetle larvae. Click here for larger image. Photo by Jeff Mitton. On a grey day in November, a downy woodpecker ...