Attract woodpeckers to your yard to control pests during colder months. Provide them with the right food, such as suet, nuts, fruit, and seeds. Use specific feeders that allow woodpeckers to cling ...

Researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tested several woodpecker deterrents, including woodpecker distress calls followed by the call of a hawk, full-sized plastic owls with paper wings, ...

Neil Lalonde found himself 40 feet above the ground one spring morning, reaching into a woodpecker nest in a loblolly pine, and pulling out a 5-day-old bird. He clasped tiny bands around its ...