The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

The red crowned pileated woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in North America. Learn about their call and sound, size and nests.

The Pileated is the largest, being about the same size as the American Crow. It is the “Woody Woodpecker” of woodpeckers!

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 ...

(Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Lalonde and his team go through all this trouble to keep track of the number of red-cockaded woodpeckers in the Big Branch Wildlife Refuge ...

Today, there are an estimated 7,900 clusters ranging from Virginia to Texas. Over 1,800 red-cockaded woodpeckers are dwelling in East Texas, residing at the W.G. Jones and I.D. Fairchild State ...