If you live in a deserted or rocky district, there will usually be a few woodpeckers living there, too. Acorn woodpeckers, for example, live in rocky oak savannas, while the Gila woodpecker even ...

While downy woodpeckers live only north of the Mexican border, hairy woodpeckers are permanent residents from Alaska and Canada all the way south through the mountains of Mexico and Central ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker to the cute compact downy woodpecker, they’re a family ...

A woodpecker native to North Carolina that was once seen as being on the cusp of disappearing from the state's longleaf pine forests is now being heralded as an example of what can happen when public ...

It also has a special weapon, a needled beak that enables it to probe deep into crevices for larvae and eggs of insects ...

The world's third largest woodpecker was condemned to oblivion some 50 years ago, but in April 2005, a stunning video emerged from a vast Arkansas swamp forest. The tape appeared to show a live ...