Red-cockaded woodpeckers have been the focus of conservation efforts, including habitat restoration, artificial nest box ...

There are three main reasons: ・In search of food ・In search of a place to build a nest ・To attract mates and establish territory There are 200 different woodpecker species around the world.

When you spot a beautiful woodpecker that doesn’t act like one, there’s a good chance it is the agile and versatile Lewis’s ...

R ecently I had a wonderful opportunity to study and photograph a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting in an old tree and feeding their young. All of this happened because a reader of this ...

Many of our birds are cavity nesters, that is, they nest in holes in trees and fence posts. Woodpeckers can use their strong ...

“When we say we replaced the trees, I mean we found trees that were able to insert cavity nest boxes in,” he said. “Because the trees that these woodpeckers use are somewhere between 80 and ...

Manitoba birdwatchers have been happy to see more sightings of the red-headed woodpecker in the last few years.

While other woodpeckers excavate cavities in dead trees, red-cockaded woodpeckers bore holes for nests solely in living pine trees that are generally 60-80 years old. Unfortunately, long-leaf pine ...