On a cold, frosty morning with snowflake shaped ice crystals on the living room window, a burst of red, black, and white ...

R ecently I had a wonderful opportunity to study and photograph a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting in an old tree and feeding their young. All of this happened because a reader of this ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that ...

Compare with the golden-fronted woodpecker, which has solid black central rectrices, lacks pink or red on the belly, and has a different pattern of color on the head. In breeding season ...

Their wingspan measures 29 inches. The ivory-billed woodpecker was larger, but is now considered extinct. Meet the red-headed woodpecker. The mated pair creates a tree cavity. Using no nesting ...

One of my normal companions during this time frame is an insect eater − a huge red-headed woodpecker. I saw him maybe a ...