Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. woodpecker Woodpeckers are notorious for pecking – or drumming – away at trees in search of food, a mate, and when nesting. But ...

The lesser spotted is the rarest of Britain's woodpeckers For the first time in more than three decades the lesser spotted woodpecker has been recorded in woodlands near East Grinstead. The lesser ...

Frame sequence from a high-speed video of pecking in the pileated woodpecker (Erica Ortlieb & Robert Shadwick, University of British Columbia) (CN) — How do woodpeckers not get concussions? This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood.

As spring progresses, you may hear that ever-familiar sound: peck, peck, peck. While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home.