On a very young bird, look for the loose, fluffy feathers of a fledgling., all See photos of more woodpecker species birders should know. Although this bird is at least 25% larger than the downy ...

In late October, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The bird, a small, largely ...

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.

“The red-cockaded woodpecker’s recovery is a tremendous victory for the Endangered Species Act,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker is among 23 species declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The service has proposed removing them from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which ...

RELATED: US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct The fear began when this proposal was introduced in 2017 under the Trump Administration. At the time, advocates across the ...