Great spotted woodpeckers communicate with 'talking drums', new research suggests. Patterns of drum rolls from their pecking beaks are used to identify individual birds, scientists believe. The ...

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2. Providing shelter and habitat for woodpeckers 'For woodpeckers and other cavity-nesting birds like chickadees, leave a dead tree or partial tree limb whenever you can,' Meredith says.

Woodpeckers deserve a second look, because there's more to these interesting birds than initially meets the eye. For one thing, they show a great deal of variation in size, with tiny downy ...

In North America, woodpeckers are responsible for 99 per cent of the tree cavities used by birds and mammals. They have just the weirdest tongues Woodpecker tongues are long.

Woodpeckers can cause damage to property, but they also eat insects – beetles, ants, caterpillars, bees, flies, mosquitoes and others – found behind tree bark or along fence rows.

Get rid of the bugs, get rid of the hungry woodpeckers. Other times, the birds may be looking to make a cozy roosting cavity. These appear much larger than feeding holes.

The birds handle it better, though, so Weird Animal Question of the Week was pleased to look into Derek Halas’s question: “Why don’t woodpeckers get headaches?” Little Drummer Bird ...