Being a generalist is a successful lifestyle approach in the avian world. It means a bird is flexible about things like where to live and what to eat, both excellent survival tactics. And that's the ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that return ...

One of Southwest Florida's most popular bird species is growing in population after struggling for several decades. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker ...

Martjan Lammertink Seven pairs of red-cockaded woodpeckers were released within the Chickasawhatchee Wildlife Management Area ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker is a conservation success story, but it still needs our help. The red-cockaded woodpecker is a conservation success story, but it still needs our help. It relies on living ...

Earlier this season, I wrote about the pileated woodpecker, a spectacular bird that reaches the northwestern edge of its range in eastern North Dakota. The part about the edge of its range could be ...

Like many Northlanders, I have been maintaining bird feeders throughout the cold days of January. A subzero day with a snowpack of a foot becomes an even more terrific winter scene with the addition ...

As a collective notion, woodpeckers are one of the more familiar bird families. The general idea is clear enough: medium-sized, black-and-white birds with red highlights that use their beaks to pound ...

I began my bird feeders around the middle of October this year. This is a regular beginning time and the available sunflower seeds were quickly discovered and eaten by local birds. The usual ...