Primarily used to procure and eat food, bills are also used to probe mud, peck wood, tear flesh, sift water, pry seeds, build ...

When winter winds are frigid and I crave a taste of the outdoors, I find myself glued to the window watching my birdfeeders.

If you also want to attract woodpeckers to your garden, you need to put some effort into establishing a welcoming habitat for ...

Some of the initial research into this question, starting in the 1970s, proposed that areas of sponge-like bones in a woodpecker’s skull act as shock absorbers to protect the brain. Subsequent ...

Five red-necked ostriches have been released in a nature reserve in Saudi Arabia as part of an ambitious plan to “rewild” the ...

As pecking orders go, it’s hard to imagine another bird that is more aggressive and dominant out of all proportion to its ...

The Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Fort Myers is a wonderland of flora and fauna and wildlife. During a recent stroll along the 1.2-mile boardwalk trail a Pileated Woodpecker provided a ...

Woodpeckers are insect-hunting and cavity-nesting birds in the family Picidae, with roughly 240 species worldwide, found on most continents except Australia and Antarctica. They can peck tree branches ...

A downy woodpecker taps away at a crabapple tree in Colorado. Lewis Geyer/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...