As big as a crow, the pileated woodpecker is the largest member of the woodpecker family in North America. Its name comes from the Latin word pileatus, which means “capped,” alluding to the ...

That said, some solutions definitely work better than others and finding the best bird deterrents can require a lot of trial and error. Woodpeckers peck for four reasons: to find food, claim territory ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened. The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) once lived from Virginia south to ...

in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus). Length 7". The barred black-and-white back pattern of the ladder-backed woodpecker extends up to the hindneck, with very little ...

The woodpecker once lived across much of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Florida to Texas, in the region’s formerly extensive long-leaf pine forests — one of the largest and most ...

This bird inhabits dense, mature and old-growth boreal and montane coniferous forests throughout northern North America. But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — ...

ECU and UNCW got together for a baseball game Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2025 at Segra Stadium in Fayetteville. Segra Stadium is home ...

The Fayetteville Woodpeckers are gearing up for the 2025 season, including themed nights, fireworks and giveaways.

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker to the cute compact downy woodpecker, they’re a family ...