Woodpeckers prefer shrubby areas with tall dead or dying trees for their nests. Wildlife Recovery Association’s woody wetland is prime real estate for these birds.

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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Pileated woodpeckers are reclusive birds that are more often heard than seen. They make a loud, repetitive chucking call that echoes across the forest canopy. Studying them can be especially tricky.

On structures, install bird-type netting to prevent woodpeckers from gaining access to wood siding or stucco. Lightweight, plastic 3/4-inch mesh is stretched from the eaves to a lower point on the ...

In our area there are approximately 38 different kinds of birds that are considered true cavity-nesters. The majority of the cavity nesting birds are insectivorous, beneficial to say the least ...

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.

Ivory-billed woodpeckers were considered birds of lowland swamps; famed 19th-century naturalist Alexander Wilson wrote that they “seek the most towering trees of the forest, seemingly ...

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.

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Green woodpeckers have exceptionally long sticky tongues for scooping up ants- the tongue is so long that it is coiled behind the skull in order to fit into the bird's head, The tongue also has a ...