Recordings of the distinctive double-rap sound of ivory-billed woodpeckers, which scientists once believed were extinct, were posted on the Internet yesterday in a further demonstration that the ...

Songbirds fill the air with wondrous melodies, while woodpeckers fill the air with rhythmic drumbeats. A woodpecker’s drumming is like a songbird’s singing, and both sounds are essential to springtime ...

I have heard the rapid-fire rapping of woodpeckers pecking on telephone poles and vent pipes during my neighborhood walks recently. It’s a sure sign that spring is here, even if snow is still falling.

In the past two weeks two people have urged me to write about woodpeckers. It seems that the birds have been loudly making their presence known by using their respective homes as drums, or even worse, ...

The drum rolls of great spotted woodpeckers may be used to identify individuals, according to a study published February 7, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Michal Budka from Adam ...

Being somewhat observant creatures, humans sense that we’d break our beaks and suffer killer headaches if we foraged for food by pecking trees like giant woodpeckers. Likewise, we’ve long assumed ...