When you spot a beautiful woodpecker that doesn’t act like one, there’s a good chance it is the agile and versatile Lewis’s ...

White-headed woodpecker has similar white wing patch and black back, but lacks white rump and belly; Lewis’s lacks white areas in plumage. Common. Year-round: oak woodlands and mixed oak-conifer ...

In the Western and Southwestern states, the acorn woodpecker stores acorns in holes drilled in trees or houses. Each hole is ...

In 2012 we and three other groups filed a petition under the federal Endangered Species Act to protect two small and genetically distinct populations of the black-backed woodpecker, one in Oregon and ...