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 ...

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 ...

What you’re hearing is war—among woodpeckers, a species called acorn woodpeckers. The birds fight long, bloody battles over access to trees, where these woodpeckers nest and store their food: you ...

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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 ...

The findings could help scientists learn more about how social behaviors evolved in other animals Abigail Eisenstadt Male acorn woodpeckers, like the one on the left, have more offspring over their ...