This post was originally published on September 25, 2010. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to...

Woodpeckers are a fascinating family. They bang away at trees with their beaks, without knocking themselves silly. They excavate nest holes, which later become...

The exploration of triads within the avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago has taken me through various families and species groups on this blog. It’s...

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition...

Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. He’s been working as...

OK. You probably know that I live where we have many, many woodpeckers. One of the most abundant woodpeckers in Oak Run, where I...

I hope everyone participated in at least one day of the four day Great Backyard Bird Count of 2018. I submitted five checklists from...

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly bunch of Lesser Spotted,...