At home in mature forests, pileated woodpeckers thrive when surrounded by dead trees and downed logs. They’re known for drilling large rectangular holes into tree trunks and thick branches as ...

A distinct knocking sound could be heard in the southern red oak behind me. It stopped briefly before starting up again, this ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker ... their home tree by drilling thousands of acorns ...

Indiana is home to seven species of woodpecker, and all but one (the yellow-bellied sapsucker) are year-round residents.