For years, Eric Schroeder has gathered photographs of local leucistic birds: white (or whitish) woodpeckers, hummingbirds, ...

As small creatures that could fly around through the ancient forests, at some point woodpeckers began to go their own way so to speak, and adapted very specialized tools that would provide the bird an ...

More than three decades after that last known sighting of the red-cockaded woodpecker in the summer of 1994, state and ...

An illustration of the ivory-billed woodpecker, featured in the 1825 book, “The birds of North America.” Credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library/Public Domain Every so often, there’s a claim that the ...

Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers' head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another a worker?

Here is a look at five bird species that build some of the world’s most unusual nests, ranging from clay ovens to woven hanging pods.

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 ...

Now to Rockport, Massachusetts, where woodpeckers are wrecking car windows and mirrors. Dealing with the chaos is exhausting residents, and you can just hear it in their voices. DEVIN MOCK: So there's ...

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

The U.S. government is ringing the death knell for 23 species of birds, fish and other wildlife, including the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will officially ...

It’s not from an episode of “Hoarders,” but a shocking discovery inside a California home probably could be if animals were featured on the popular reality TV show. A technician from a pest control ...

The male pileated woodpecker has been attacking residents' cars in Rockport during his mating season Janelle Favaloro A male woodpecker in Massachusetts was caught vandalizing vehicles amid the bird's ...