A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction ...

Tucson Bird Alliance and volunteers have counted the stunning birds each spring in their only U.S. breeding stronghold.

PLAY BALL Weekend is almost here, and Minor League clubs have put together an exciting calendar of events to celebrate MLB’s ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Nestled along the shores of Lake Ontario, Chimney Bluffs State Park offers the kind of dramatic landscapes you’d expect to ...

Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% ...

A single red-cockaded woodpecker has been found digging a nest at a Columbia area nature preserve that hasn’t documented the species in five decades ...

Within a woodpecker's head, the tongue does stretch from the beak, curve back along the rear of the head, over the cranial crest, and can even extend close to the nostrils or eye sockets.

Though people find woodpeckers annoying for their noisy habits, they're very beneficial birds. It's likely your yard already ...

Like most songbirds, the incubation period for the eggs is about 14 days, but that is where the similarities end. Hairy woodpecker chicks require about a month of care before they are ready to leave ...

At one point in the 1970s, the red-cockaded woodpecker population had dipped as low as 1,470 clusters — or groups of nests. Today, there are an estimated 7,800 clusters.