As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain trauma from all that drumming? So, I looked it up. Once again, nature has ...

Miles Purden started noticing woodpeckers taking aim at his home in North Kamloops in 2020. They were pecking at his concrete home and nesting in his walls. "When they're ripping out the ...

Whirligig Beetle. Image by Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Whirligig beetles, belonging to the family Gyrinidae, are renowned for their exceptional swimming abilities ...

Pileated woodpeckers occur in large stands of mature timber. Rare in central Oklahoma, it’s relatively common in the largely forested parts of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. It is occasionally seen ...

Historically, the red-cockaded woodpecker occurred throughout the shortleaf pine-dominated forests in McCurtain, Pushmataha, LeFlore, and Latimer counties, and may have even occurred in portions of ...