Even if you're an avid bird lover, a woodpecker pecking on your home is not exactly an ideal situation. Woodpeckers will peck on homes in search of insects that are hidden beneath your home's siding ...

You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. woodpecker Woodpeckers are notorious for pecking – or drumming – away at trees in search of food, a mate, and when nesting. But ...

As spring progresses, you may hear that ever-familiar sound: peck, peck, peck. While fun for bird watchers, woodpeckers can quickly become a nuisance when their beak’s target is the side of your home.

Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains. This led to the notion that their skulls must act like ...

The birds hammer away, yet they don’t get concussed. Scientists found that assumptions about the animals’ impact-absorbing skulls were wrong. By Sam Jones Watching a woodpecker repeatedly smash its ...