Apparently, the word “jinx” derives from a certain Old World woodpecker. Do you know which one? Take your guess and check your answer. Good...
The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern,...
Oh, wait, never mind. Darned local news stations… Hat-tip to Birdchick.
This week I find myself writing about Colombia again. But this should not come as a surprise as the country really is almost fathomless...
Disbelief probably seems like the proper response to the idea that there are woodpeckers in New York City. After all, woodpeckers peck on trees,...
As regular readers of 10,000 Birds already know, I am enamored of my Queens list. So when a Red-headed Woodpecker was reported on Thursday...
Why would I call these beautiful woodpeckers the “clowns of the avian world?” Besides the facial features of the Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) appearing...
It’s been an indoorsy kind of week here in Montana, so I’m sharing a bit of the past with you guys: an excerpt from...
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