Many of my graduate students (and by mine, I mean those who worked on thesis research problems under my direction) studied behavioral ecology of woodpeckers. Behavioral ecology is a discipline that ...

Listen up, class! Today's column is a primer on woodpeckers. This is a timely lesson because several varieties of woodpeckers are winter residents of the Red River Valley. If you pay attention, you're ...

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers make rows of holes in trees to eat the sap that flows out and insects that get trapped in it. (Clay Wollney) Seven species of woodpeckers have been seen on Staten Island.

Disputing the traditional theory that they absorb impact, scientists show that woodpeckers’ skulls remain rigid and stiff during pecking. The mechanics behind woodpeckers’ signature behavior has ...