Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

When aircrash investigators of the future retrieve a flight recorder from the wreckage of a plane they may have the golden-fronted woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifons, to thank for the survival of the ...

The red-bellied woodpecker's drumming is similar to the downy's but much more robust, almost like a small jackhammer. Its drumming can be heard throughout the day. The golden-fronted woodpecker of ...

Now scientists are learning how to harness the woodpecker's special abilities not to prevent headaches, but to safeguard our gadgets. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, analyzed CT ...