Last Friday, I woke up with a splitting headache and bloody sinuses. Every muscle in my body ached and I was utterly exhausted even after a full night of sleep. I walked out to check on the wood stove ...
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 ...
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, ...
YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Truly a rare visitor to our backyard bird feeders, it’s always exciting when Dr. Pill shows up. Dr. Pill is our nickname for our local Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus ...
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 ...
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, ...
In recent columns, I’ve discussed the yellow-bellied sapsucker, a definite oddball among the region’s woodpeckers, as well as the downy woodpecker, which is the smallest member of this clan of ...
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 ...
Editor's note: Wildlife Recovery Association's Barb and Joe Rogers ask that supporters request that Michigan Electric Transmission Company find a route for high voltage power lines that avoids the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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