As any Merlin Bird IDer knows, there is no thrill quite like pressing the "This is my bird" button for the first time, ...

Arts & Entertainment Woodpeckers may be pretty birds, but here's how to protect your trees Sapsuckers target trees in distress, so it's important to keep your trees healthy.

The more variation in in fire characteristics, the more beneficial it is for birds, wildlife and biodiversity as a whole, especially for black-backed woodpeckers, according to the study.

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 ...

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An ancient family, woodpeckers are 239 species strong and live on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Compared to other birds, they do things a little differently.

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 ...

♪♪ We know that woodpeckers come from an ancient lineage that separated from other birds some 24 million years ago. And they are different in so many ways.

The woodpeckers will be glad to peck on that instead of your beams. For the bat, take down the screen and instead install something that won’t give the bat a toe-hold, such as metal flashing.