If you see a red-headed woodpecker during your Independence Day weekend outings, call it by one of its folk names, patriot bird or flag bird. The red-headed woodpecker’s entire head and neck are ...

A bird that serves as the catalyst to pique someone’s interest in the feathered world is termed a “spark bird.” The red-headed woodpecker was the spark that launched Alexander Wilson’s career. Wilson ...

Montgomery County was abuzz about a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting at Lakeside Park in The Woodlands. And rightly so. Virtually all local residents of tree-shaded neighborhoods will see a ...

Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the ...

As Steven Hogg sees it, sometimes you have to pick up the critters and move them to the new habitat. Sometimes if you build it, they will come. And sometimes, when it's red-headed woodpeckers you're ...

When the red-headed woodpecker showed up in our yard, we were quite thrilled. These birds are quite scarce these days and seeing them is a real treat. Although we have had them frequent our woods from ...

When Brian Shema began taking part in the Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count more than two decades ago, red-bellied woodpeckers were a very rare sight. The red-headed bird’s historical ...

The Pacific coast representative of the yellow-bellied sapsucker complex, the red-breasted sapsucker differs from other sapsuckers in its almost entirely red head and breast. Identification is ...