Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

Are woodpeckers hammering on your siding? Learn why they’re making a racket and more importantly, how to get them to stop.

In the woodpecker’s habitat, such as an oak savanna, red-headed woodpeckers act as an “ecosystem engineer,” West explained. They create nesting cavities, which a host of other critters also ...

2008. Evi­dence of positive indirect effects within a com­munity of cavity-nesting vertebrates. Condor 110:441‒449. Laves, K. S., and S. C. Loeb. 1999. Effects of southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys ...

Most recently, Hurricane Helene wiped out 18 nest cavity trees in just one area in Florida. Red-cockaded woodpecker. Credit: Martjan Lammertink/USFS. Image is available for media use. The Center for ...

To celebrate the beginning of spring in the Gaelic calendar, ornithologist Seán Ronayne is across the schedule on RTÉ lyric ...