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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Fourth. You can expect to see our patriotic colors red, white and blue nearly everywhere this weekend in honor of Independence Day on Monday. Likewise, our national symbol, the majestic bald ...

Neotropical songbirds spend winters throughout Latin America and migrate to North America in the spring to breed and raise young until time to fly back to their winter homes in the fall. It’s a round ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that return ...

The Red-Headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erthrocephalus) is the only woodpecker in eastern North America that has an entirely ...