Woodpeckers are wonderful birds, and I enjoy watching them. Their adaptations for hanging out on tree trunks and drilling into wood for food are very distinctive. They have strong toes with sharp ...

Several readers have written about seeing for the first time a red-bellied woodpecker at their suet feeders and wondered if it is a rare bird. It is definitely a quite striking bird, easily noticed, ...

I began my bird feeders around the middle of October this year. This is a regular beginning time and the available sunflower seeds were quickly discovered and eaten by local birds. The usual ...

I hear the rolling kwirr-kwirr call of a red-bellied woodpecker outside the bedroom window every morning. I watch the bird hitch up a nearby pine tree, and I hear it tap the bark with its long, chisel ...

Like many Northlanders, I have been maintaining bird feeders throughout the cold days of January. A subzero day with a snowpack of a foot becomes an even more terrific winter scene with the addition ...

Through readers' comments and my own observations, I have been tracking with interest the northward movement of the Red-bellied Woodpecker's territory. They have been established for quite some time ...

A good friend shared a photo a few days ago, happily reporting that a “red-headed woodpecker” was visiting her feeders and feasting on a suet block. I praised the photograph, but cautiously advised ...

Photo by Ken Thomas/special to the news sentinel A female red-bellied woodpecker reveals the seldom-noticed red belly for which the species is named. Males have more red atop the head than females.

Earlier this season, I wrote about the pileated woodpecker, a spectacular bird that reaches the northwestern edge of its range in eastern North Dakota. The part about the edge of its range could be ...

The red-bellied woodpecker is the familiar zebra-backed woodpecker of eastern woodlands and towns. Monotypic (or up to 4 weakly defined ssp. sometimes recognized). Length 9". All red-bellied ...

SOUTH NEWFANE The red-bellied woodpecker is an established Vermont bird, on its way to becoming as common as the many other flatlanders that have moved north to make the state its home. The ...

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 ...