Tap, tap, tap! Flying in to visit Robin is a woodpecker with a very long beak!

“Drumming is a behavior woodpeckers do to attract mates and repel rivals. It involves pecking just to make sounds,” explains Emma Greig of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. If this is the case, the ...

Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at trees, and this sound may be a crucial aid to identifying any surviving birds. A recent recording may have captured this ...