By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff As many hours as I have spent in the woods over the years, I have never seen a ...

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

Woodpeckers help and hurt trees. They help by devouring insects that injure trees, including ants, caterpillars and borers.

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

Now that we've entered the new spring season, we may be looking for the migrants who will live with us. Searching the yards, we can see some birds that did not winter here but are present now. Along ...

Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

Seeing a woodpecker in action is more extraordinary than most people realize. This tiny bird does incredible things and is ...

During their lives trees perform functions critical to the health of forests and its wildlife — providing oxygen to the ...

The Pileated Woodpecker is a species that requires a rather large amount of forest in order to make a living. They also require forests full of large trees with relatively high stem densities.

We have 10 RCW (red-cockaded woodpecker) groups there.” There was significant tree loss, Burnam said. “The areas with the RCW cluster sites and the areas they use to forage, damage was ...