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 ...

On crisp winter days, when the snow has glazed over into a hard crust and instead of muffling sound seems to clarify it, bird calls come clear and sharp as they skitter over the icy surfaces and ...

A downy woodpecker is a small black and white bird that visits suet feeders. Listen to their call and see photos of males and ...

Few sights feel as wild and lively as the rapid tap-tap-tap of a woodpecker at work on a tree trunk. For garden lovers who ...

The downy woodpecker is among the steadiest of winter birds. She's at the suet feeder every morning. I know the bird is a female because there's no red mark on the back of her head. Male downy ...

Downy Woodpeckers are year-round residents of our area, raising their families in summer as well as spending winters here. When the breeding season arrives, a pair selects a nest site in a dead branch ...

Dear Bird Folks, I’m a new bird watcher who is particularly interested in woodpeckers. Right now my biggest challenge is trying to identify a Downy Woodpecker from a Hairy Woodpecker. I’m not sure ...

“Woodpecker,” we think, when we see a black and white bird at our feeder or on a tree trunk, lumping members of a diverse family together. But which one is it? Woodpeckers deserve a second look, ...

To a woodpecker’s brain, drumming against a tree is a lot like birdsong. The findings reveal substantial similarities in the brain circuitry behind hearing and executing these two major acoustic ...