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.

Woodpeckers are important members of the bird community, pounding out nesting holes later used by other cavity-nesting bird species. Tree cavities are hard to find. When the birds are attacking your ...

Do woodpeckers lay their eggs in the winter? We’ve been seeing a Downey Woodpecker going in and out of one of our birdhouses lately, but it seems too cold to be having babies right now. – Maggie, ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) was once a common sight in the southern U.S., before logging and alteration of the fire regime reduced the original pine forest habitat of the bird. Designated as ...

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. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...