So, whenever we have a bird question stumping us around the office, we just ask Kenn. And now you can, too! If you have a ...

What Does a Downy Woodpecker Look Like? One of winter’s most underrated joys is watching through a kitchen window as a downy woodpecker flits from suet feeders to nearby trees. Affectionately called ...

This common desert woodpecker replaces the closely related Nuttall’s in arid regions; the 2 species are known to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp. in North ...

It is opening day of the winter Nelchina caribou season — at least for federal subsistence hunters. One would think I might be writing about that? Nope. This is about woodpeckers. We have seven or ...

What is that tapping in our winter woods? Likely it is one of the four species of woodpeckers that stay with us for the winter and remain active throughout the cold. These ingenious birds feed ...

Some of Costa Rica’s species are more easily identified by sound than by sight. Mantled howler monkeys’ guttural roars are an easy example. The soulful whistle of the thicket tinamou in the evening is ...