Meet the woodpecker with a puzzling moniker and a big appetite for suet. Learn what a red-bellied woodpecker looks like and ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will remove 21 species from the nation's endangered species list because they are considered extinct, but the much-debated ivory-billed woodpecker won a ...

In 2021, the agency seemed ready to declare the so-called Lord God Bird extinct: The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to remove 23 species, including the ivory-billed woodpecker, from ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker, once endangered, is experiencing a resurgence in Coastal Carolina and the Southeast, thanks to the efforts of public and private landowners. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Peachtree Rock has recently spotted the first red-cockaded woodpecker in Lexington County after going decades without any ...

Small brains, ridiculous tongues and a passion for percussion. There are 239 species of woodpeckers, ranging in size from the tiny downy to the impressive pileated. Woodpeckers inhabit every ...

This active winter species gets me outside to take a walk and get some exercise. I must dress warmly, but the woodpecker makes the best of its year-round attire with all its interesting adaptations.

The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company is aiming to restore the fabled species to its natural habitat.

Get 3 months just 99¢/month SUBSCRIBE NOW! Show Search. Clear Search Query Submit Search ...

Not seen by scientists since the first specimen was described nearly a century ago, Kaempfer’s woodpecker (Celeus obrieni) was “rediscovered” in the mid-2000s. Listed as a vulnerable species ...