So, how do you stop woodpeckers from pecking your house ... They also feed on wood borers, ants, grubs, and caterpillars.

Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at trees, and this sound may be a crucial aid to identifying any surviving birds. A recent recording may have captured this ...

The primary reason is eating. Sapsuckers peck small holes in search of tree sap. Other kinds of woodpeckers are searching for insects like ants, wood borers and bark lice. Often these insects are ...

It was a northern flicker, the most common and wide-ranging woodpecker in these parts, pecking at a corner of ... It was not even wood, but an orange resin material made to look like wood and ...

To significantly increase cutting performance in a range of wood sawing applications, the L.S. Starrett Co. has introduced ...

5. The woodpecker’s beak forms an overbite. This beak bone takes most of the hit when pecking. It acts to absorb the impact and puts the strain on the body, not the skull. 6. The skull acts like ...

Miles Purden and Curtis Houston have launched a survey of Kamloops residents dealing with woodpecker woes to find out what's working and what isn't.

But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — because it loves to eat the wood-boring beetles that flock to large dead and moribund trees, responding to insect outbreaks ...