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

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 ...

“The red-shafted flicker is so well-known that any detailed description of its plumage or habits seems superfluous,” wrote Willard Ayres Eliot in his 1923 book, “Birds of the Pacific Coast.” And so it ...

As we reach the second week of December, we enter an interesting time in the cycle of the year. We are at the time of the earliest sunsets. It appears to be still afternoon, not dusk, when the sun ...

Whenever I spy a pileated woodpecker traversing the sky, I pause to watch its weird undulating flight. The jerky rise-and-drop movement of this large woodpecker is endearingly gawky — like a mini ...

Like a slow parade, November’s birds arrive. The latest entrant is the pileated woodpecker, a resident bird that grows more conspicuous as winter begins. These large woodpeckers come into settled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 13—Late January gave us plenty of opportunities for walking in subzero temperatures. For two weeks, my morning treks were in ...

In Big Thicket National Preserve’s converging ecosystems, NPCA is helping to restore the red-cockaded woodpecker and the longleaf pine forests they call home. Big Thicket National Preserve in ...

Pileated woodpeckers are the magnificent giants of our local head-hammering world. While our most common downy woodpeckers weigh less than an ounce, our pileateds can weigh almost a pound. Worldwide, ...