Research Forester John Ross came to work one day at Jones State Forest to discover a busload of foreigners at his front door. "Hey, mate, we're looking for the red-cockaded woodpecker," said a member ...

The last time anyone spotted a red-cockaded woodpecker in Tennessee, Bill Clinton was in his first term in the White House.

Biologists were surprised to hear recently that a once-rare woodpecker had been spotted in a forest west of Columbia for the first time in 50 years. But in checking things out, they verified that a ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) – Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that’s survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees ...

A close-up look at a woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk, its head lifted as if sensing movement nearby. The soft green background brings full focus to the bird’s feathers and alert posture, creating ...

THOMASVILLE, GA — Discover one of the Southeast’s rarest birds up close during a unique, hands-on conservation program at Pebble Hill Plantation at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 10. Join noted wildlife ...

It's called "The Grail Bird," a bird so rare, so sought after that it's considered the Holy Grail of ornithology. In fact, the ivory-billed woodpecker had been thought to be extinct for more than half ...

An Imperial woodpecker hasn't been provably sighted since 1956, making it the holy grail for bird watchers in Mexico.