Having grown up in an outdoor oriented family, I admit I sometimes got a little smug about my knowledge level regarding nature. I have since been humbled so many times I can’t begin to count them all.

You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America's largest woodpecker. Wildlife habitat in congested places is becoming ...

The birds hammer away, yet they don’t get concussed. Scientists found that assumptions about the animals’ impact-absorbing skulls were wrong. By Sam Jones Watching a woodpecker repeatedly smash its ...

Barbara in Lee wrote: "We just saw our first hummingbird today, May 4, Fairview St., Lee." So, if the weather has kept you from putting out your hummingbird feeder, do it today! And if like so many ...

Q. I saw these holes in my tree and am wondering what they are from. This tree is the only one I have seen them on. – M.S., Chesterton A. The holes are likely from woodpecker injury, but the tree may ...

Woodpeckers are notorious for pecking – or drumming – away at trees in search of food, a mate, and when nesting. But when they turn their attention to pecking your home, it can be frustrating. Aside ...