A good friend shared a photo a few days ago, happily reporting that a “red-headed woodpecker” was visiting her feeders and feasting on a suet block. I praised the photograph, but cautiously advised ...

In recent columns I have discussed the smallest and largest of the woodpeckers in the region, as well as focused a spotlight on the oddball yellow-bellied sapsucker and the medium-sized Northern ...

I began my bird feeders around the middle of October this year. This is a regular beginning time and the available sunflower seeds were quickly discovered and eaten by local birds. The usual ...

Like many Northlanders, I have been maintaining bird feeders throughout the cold days of January. A subzero day with a snowpack of a foot becomes an even more terrific winter scene with the addition ...

Photo by Ken Thomas/special to the news sentinel A female red-bellied woodpecker reveals the seldom-noticed red belly for which the species is named. Males have more red atop the head than females.

SOUTH NEWFANE The red-bellied woodpecker is an established Vermont bird, on its way to becoming as common as the many other flatlanders that have moved north to make the state its home. The ...

Looks like: Red-bellied woodpeckers have black-and-white barred backs, brown underparts, white upper tail coverts, and black tail feathers. Both the male and female present themselves with a red nape, ...

Woodpeckers are wonderful birds, and I enjoy watching them. Their adaptations for hanging out on tree trunks and drilling into wood for food are very distinctive. They have strong toes with sharp ...

I hear the rolling kwirr-kwirr call of a red-bellied woodpecker outside the bedroom window every morning. I watch the bird hitch up a nearby pine tree, and I hear it tap the bark with its long, chisel ...

“By the way, Sue. The red-bellied woodpecker (who has no red on his belly at all!) has become a regular visitor at our feeder! I hope he likes us enough to stay around!” My sister Bevie added this ...

Being a generalist is a successful lifestyle approach in the avian world. It means a bird is flexible about things like where to live and what to eat, both excellent survival tactics. And that's the ...

You can’t necessarily depend on reason when identifying birds. Years ago when ornithologist were first naming bird species, they would hold a dead bird in hand or look at a mounted specimen. And they ...