So, let’s take a little birding trip to the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Puffins in cliffs in the Shetlands Islands have been a recent ...

The best US states for bird watching can help you take your love for birding up a notch or two. Home to more than 245 species ...

Attract them to your yard with a hummingbird feeder that stores nectar, or plant flowers such as bee balm, hostas, petunias, ...

The 12th annual Unicoi County Summer Count took place Saturday, June 14, with 15 observers in six parties. Sharp-eyed ...

A hairy (left) and a downy (right) woodpecker. Source: Indiana Ivy/ Fair use If self-deception, also known as the Dunning-Kruger effect in psychology, is bad enough, then discovering that you’ve ...

As I’m typing this column, I’ve been enjoying two downy woodpeckers jockeying for position at the suet blocks hanging on our porch railing. So, grab your binoculars, put out some suet, and enjoy the ...

The Downy Woodpecker and Red-Bellied Woodpecker in this video are pulling whole hot pepper suet nuggets from this feeder. Birds will readily eat hot pepper foods, while mammals like squirrels ...

A Downy Woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens, eating sunflower seeds from a bird feeder. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects ...

Even if not officially extinct, the ivory-billed woodpecker’s absence from our native fauna leaves a lamentable ecovoid. Nonetheless we still have pileated woodpeckers, as well as others.

Sightings of the highly secretive ivory-billed woodpecker continue though most ornithologists believe the birds no longer inhabit the earth.

Other year-round residents of the city, including the downy woodpecker, red-breasted nuthatch and northern saw-whet owl, were eliminated in an earlier round of voting.