Birds can be black and white for several ... Nests: Their nest may be a scrape lined with pebbles. Identification: These ...

Ivory-billed woodpeckers were considered birds of lowland swamps ... however, and other bird identification experts believe that the video likely showed a pileated woodpecker.

But there's a lot you probably don't know about these ubiquitous birds. Woodpeckers: The Hole Story, a documentary from The Nature of Things, drills into what makes these creatures so fascinating.

During election season, everyone can relate to woodpeckers: We all feel like banging our heads against the wall. The birds handle it better, though, so Weird Animal Question of the Week was ...

Researchers filmed three species of captive woodpeckers pounding away, and found that their heads behave like “stiff hammers” to peck as efficiently as possible. If the birds had shock ...

Video and photographs from a Louisiana forest were published Thursday showing grainy depictions of birds resembling the elusive woodpeckers. Geoffrey Hill, an ornithologist at Auburn University ...

"When you see these birds in action, hitting their head against ... that set out to settle the issue using high speed video of woodpeckers in action. "We went to four different zoos in Europe ...

The discoveries they have made in a new study has helped experts learn more, not just about woodpeckers, but also about the way birds have evolved (changed over time) in general. Scientists around ...