On a recent trip down memory lane in the form of searching through old photos from my trip to Honduras I serendipitously stumbled upon...

The typical woodpecker, with its coloration of black, white, and red, is ingrained into our brains as birders.  We all have our familiar species...

Way back on 30 October of last year a Lewis’s Woodpecker was seen coming to a backyard bird feeder in Ontario County, New York,...

In the southeast United States, the woodpecker that gets all the attention is the one with the red cockade.  Rightly so I guess, it...

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) is found primarily in the oak woodlands of California and northern Baja California. It just so happens that I...

The concept of endemism, as it pertains to ecologists (and birders are nothing if not amateur ecologists), is tossed around somewhat carelessly.  Seemingly simply...

With Brown-headed Nuthatch ticked off my life list I was excited to get out and about and see my life Red-cockaded Woodpecker.  Nate arrived...

Several times over the last couple of years I have had non-birder acquaintances ask me about the “bird with polka dots,” “a bird on...