The acorn woodpecker’s social structure, known as clans, consists of a dozen or more birds that will include breeding pairs ...

Acorn woodpeckers are one of our most common woodpeckers in Sonoma County, and they are known to cache (or store) acorns in places like chimneys and vent pipes of homes, especially when their natural ...

Cinematographer Mark Carroll takes us up in a crane to show us how he was able to capture feeding and caching behavior at the Acorn Woodpecker’s eyeview at the Hastings Natural History preserve in ...

Few sights feel as wild and lively as the rapid tap-tap-tap of a woodpecker at work on a tree trunk. For garden lovers who ...

It was unmistakable, that sound: ritcha-ritcha-ritcha. It had to be an acorn woodpecker, a bird with which I am very familiar. I had not heard it for more than four years, since moving to Tucson. I ...

Acorn woodpeckers love to collect acorns and tattoo them into holes they create in trees. Acorn woodpeckers love to collect acorns and “tattoo” them into the holes they create in trees. Placing these ...

GLEN ELLEN, Calif. -- A pair of California woodpeckers are surely crushed after a pest control technician on a routine call recently found their massive trove of acorns cleverly stashed in the walls ...