The Lewis's woodpecker is a fairly large bird at 10.75 inches in length with a wingspan of 21 inches. This uncommon, striking woodpecker has a dark green back, dark head, gray neck, pink belly, a ...

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies is hosting weekly birding outings this summer, alternating to sites at Highland Lake ...

Wed., June 3, 2020 Lewis’s woodpecker is a large North American species which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis, one of the explorers who surveyed the areas bought by ...

Others, notably Lewis`s and red-headed woodpeckers, get many of their meals by pursuing flying insects and do little pecking. Why don`t the bark-bashers get concussions?

She said the Lewis's woodpecker is about 10 inches in length, about the same size as a red-headed woodpecker, and has an oily green back with a red face, pink belly and silver-gray collar.

Lewis’s Woodpecker and the Red-cockaded Woodpecker are species that have declined rapidly and are now under intense conservation efforts to boost their populations.

Wisconsin birders have an extra reason to be thankful this holiday: An unusual woodpecker that normally dwells west of the Great Plains has turned up in Trempealeau County. Zaila Anderson’s ...

Stepping back, I quickly spotted the sources: first one, then another nearby, and then a third ladderbacked woodpecker, all industriously tapping away on different branches of the tree.

Even from 200 yards away, I suspected that the bird ahead of us on the road on the west side of Market Lake Wildlife Management Area last month was a woodpecker. With that in mind, it was easy to ...

The Lewis’s woodpecker showed up Dec. 18, much further east than its usual range. It was a shock to see the Lewis’s woodpecker at Schramm Education Center feeders because it hasn’t been seen ...

The 215th anniversary of the launch of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition will be observed May 14. Woodpecker still bears name of expedition’s charismatic leader Skip to main content Skip to ...