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 ...

How fun is it to watch the White-Breasted Nuthatch as it moves down a tree trunk or, as in this video, clings upside down on a feeder? The nuthatch and a female Downy Woodpecker are pecking loose 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.

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two downy woodpeckers put on a rousing display in our yard in late April. I thought I was watching courtship behavior, a male and a female interacting. Doing research to confirm that, I found that ...