Woodpeckers have even inspired the engineering ... Michael Granatosky who studies evolutionary biomechanics at the New York Institute of Technology and was not involved in the study.

More than 20 vehicles in a town on Cape Ann, Mass., have been damaged by a woodpecker in mating season. “You still see him out here,” one resident said. “Peck, peck, peck, peck.” ...

To a woodpecker’s brain ... Erich Jarvis at The Rockefeller University in New York wanted to know if the brains of birds that don’t learn their calls – flamingos, hawks and others ...

Owning a wood-framed house in Upstate New York, I expected to deal with snow and the occasional mouse—not birds attacking or flying into my home. But last fall, after hearing a woodpecker drill ...