There are only a handful of birds that elicit pure excitement and joy when it shows up at your backyard feeding station. The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is our largest woodpecker species ...

“The red-shafted flicker is so well-known that any detailed description of its plumage or habits seems superfluous,” wrote Willard Ayres Eliot in his 1923 book, “Birds of the Pacific Coast.” And so it ...

As we reach the second week of December, we enter an interesting time in the cycle of the year. We are at the time of the earliest sunsets. It appears to be still afternoon, not dusk, when the sun ...

Driving down an urban street, one doesn’t expect bird excitement. One expects walkers, joggers, NYSEG lines under repair. If the hour is early morning, an additional problem arises: One’s ability to ...

Like a slow parade, November’s birds arrive. The latest entrant is the pileated woodpecker, a resident bird that grows more conspicuous as winter begins. These large woodpeckers come into settled ...

Being a generalist is a successful lifestyle approach in the avian world. It means a bird is flexible about things like where to live and what to eat, both excellent survival tactics. And that's the ...

I’ve been hyperfocused this winter on the decline of the tufted titmouse population, but readers have been letting me know about more frequent sightings of a bird that has been increasing in Berks: ...

Q: For the past several winters I've enjoyed a pair of pileated woodpeckers coming to our suet feeder, but this year I almost never see them. I have other woodpeckers but wonder why the pileateds ...

The Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries announced that a federally endangered species, the red-cockaded woodpecker, has moved in to Big Woods Wildlife Management Area in Sussex County. This ...