A woodpecker in a Rockport, Massachusetts, neighborhood is known to frequent the local woods, often drilling into dead trees, ...

The woodpecker has been caught on camera perching on cars and trucks and drilling into the side mirrors, leaving some cracked ...

Monotypic (or up to 4 weakly defined ssp. sometimes recognized). Length 9". All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black-and-white barred back, white uppertail coverts, grayish white underparts ...

Three rare bird species were sighted in Alabama over the last week. See which unique species were spotted and what we know about them.

Amidst a comeback for the red-cockaded woodpecker — the South’s not-always-welcome neighbor — a new legal status and ...

This conspicuous clown-faced woodpecker of western oak woodlands ... but the white forehead is separated from the red crown by a black band. Juvenile: resembles adult but black areas are duller ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened. The woodpecker once lived across ...

large white cheek patches and a distinctive black cap and nape. Preferring mature pine forests, the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker is unique in that, unlike most woodpeckers that create cavities in soft ...