Meet the woodpecker with a puzzling moniker and a big appetite for suet. Learn what a red-bellied woodpecker looks like and ...
The steady, behind-the-scenes work of Kasia Bradley and Anna Claire Rogers is making the Thorobred Trail a better home for ...
It’s quite normal for greater spotteds to start staking out territories in January, less so on a plastic box near my bedroom window ...
Take a peek into the always entertaining lives of birds, from intimate moments with mates to fierce fights for territory.
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How to identify a hairy woodpecker

A hairy woodpecker brings flashes of black and white to your backyard. Attract these birds with suet and peanut feeders.
Participants in the recent Reading Christmas Bird Count awoke on the morning of Dec. 14 to a glistening winter wonderland of ...
A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...
At the 161-hectare Montalto estate near Ballynahinch in Co Down, the woodlands were devastated with the loss of more than 1,500 trees as the storm barrelled its way across the country. Veteran oaks, ...
From their October arrival to their dawn feeding habits, dark-eyed juncos are the dependable “snowbirds” that quietly define ...
Launched by the National Audubon Society in 1900, the international gathering now hosts more than 2,600 “count circles” ...
Whether I’m writing in my columns or in my different journals, I often refer to a particular group of birds as “the regulars.” These are the species that are dependable visitors to my feeders on ...