The most common is the great spotted woodpecker. Its loud drumming, mader by rapidly hammering its beak on a dead branch carries a considerable distance. But it is worth listening carefully to the ...

Well, it now appears that the ivory-billed woodpecker does exist. The three skeptics who had questioned the evidence presented in a Science paper that the birds were living in an Arkansas swamp now ...

Among trees, great spotted woodpeckers will crawl up and down trunks searching for grubs and, besides drumming, will give out a distinctive ‘kix’ call that sounds a little like a squeaky dog toy.