An animal control officer in Jefferson County, Colorado, got an unexpected surprise on April 14 while responding to a raccoon call. A woodpecker landed on her and decided to stay.

It’s true! Woody was modeled after the pileated woodpecker! Who knew? Pileated woodpeckers (Dryocopus pileatus) are native to North America as well territories near the Great Lakes, Canada, and parts ...

Jason Day, the 13-time PGA Tour winner, has a new deal with TIAA, in which he will be the retirement planner's first "Golf Ambassador." ...

As spring blooms in British Columbia, the brilliant orange-and black pattern of a monarch butterfly's wing and the ...

Peter Thompson, the study's co-author and a post-doctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University, said the most common pattern was for nothing to change at all.

A new study shows how woodpeckers engage muscles throughout their entire bodies and coordinate their breaths to drill into wood. Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Nicholas Antonson, post-doctorate ...

Two of the more elusive animals in my backyard are the pileated woodpecker and the carpenter ant.I rarely see either, yet I have ample evidence of their presence. This winter, pileated woodpeckers ...

As temperatures finally rise above freezing, the snow surrounding the house and in the woods ever so slowly collapses. Icicles drip, drip by day and refreeze by night. When the sun is shining, some ...

Woodpeckers peck trees and wood searching for insects and also to communicate with each other (file photo) Power cuts in a Co Clare town have been caused by woodpeckers pecking electricity poles and ...