With the rampant clearing of our forests in centuries past, the Pileated Woodpecker became rare, but as the second growth forests began to reemerge at the beginning of the 20th century, its numbers ...

The pileated woodpecker is an impressive bird in many ways. A forceful reminder of this came at me the other day, when a pileated woodpecker appeared in front of my windshield. The bird was northbound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 8—If there's one thing a pileated woodpecker loves, it's a decaying tree or a rotten log. That's because pileated (pronounced ...

As cities continue expanding, forested areas are becoming scarcer, and less dense. That's bad news for the wildlife that call those areas home. A University of Cincinnati doctoral student is studying ...

John Simone said the pileated woodpecker in his backyard first caught his attention late last month when it started “going nuts” on a young silver maple sapling. The prehistoric-looking bird with its ...

I’ve been hyperfocused this winter on the decline of the tufted titmouse population, but readers have been letting me know about more frequent sightings of a bird that has been increasing in Berks: ...

Winter birds give us plenty of company as the cold season moves through the Northland. Many visit our bird feeders, allowing for close views, while others stay further back in the woods in ...

Pileated woodpeckers are an iconic woodpecker, Woody the Woodpecker made flesh; they are crow-sized with striking black and white markings, both male and female bear a flashy red crest. Large and ...

Driving down an urban street, one doesn’t expect bird excitement. One expects walkers, joggers, NYSEG lines under repair. If the hour is early morning, an additional problem arises: One’s ability to ...

A walk in the forest, even an urban forest, sometimes reveals the strange sight of a tree that looks as if it had been bombed. Long shards of broken bark lie scattered around a trunk marked by large, ...

There are only a handful of birds that elicit pure excitement and joy when they shows up at your backyard feeding station. The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is our largest woodpecker ...