These examples demonstrate how people have relied on nature’s signals to make predictions about their environment. Pileated Woodpeckers. Image by kbarryphoto via Depositphotos The number of ...

Maine Audubon says that all four species of woodpeckers found in Maine nest in dead tree cavities or dead branches. We live near a pond and have seen all of the species on our suet or on our trees at ...

And there was a fourth kind of woodpecker here, too. Much larger than the others (about the size of crows), pileated woodpeckers also wintered here. They did come to suet on the feeders ...

A maple tree photographed recently shows the extent of the excavation done by a pileated woodpecker over the winter. Note the pile of wood chips at the base of the tree. The woodpecker was feeding on ...

Foremost among the possible species were the Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), which builds nests in the spaces between dead tree trunks and the loose bark that hasn’t quite fallen off the tree, and ...

So, it was with a great sense of wonder and satisfaction that I just happened to notice one of the big woodpeckers exploring the trunks of the dead pines. The Pileated Woodpecker is a species that ...

Upon investigating the damage in the resident's walls, an avalanche of acorns poured out, having been placed in the cavities by a rogue woodpecker. "Bird was a bit of a hoarder," Nick Castro of ...

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 ...

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