Trail cam photos of blackbirds and red-winged blackbirds in southern Illinois and notes on pileated woodpeckers in the Forest ...

John and Judy Nay of St. Joseph witnessed a female pileated woodpecker extract carpenter ants from a dead silver maple, ...

The female will produce a clutch of 3 to 4 white eggs and will lay them directly on a layer of fresh wood chips at the bottom of the newly excavated nest cavity. Both birds will take turns incubating ...

18.There's an unexplained light called the Joplin Spooklight in Missouri that shows up on an old dirt road. People have ...

As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain trauma from all that drumming? So, I looked it up. Once again, nature has ...

This beautiful pleated woodpecker was found in Marquette County by photographer Ron Mattson. The Mining Journal is accepting original local photo submissions from area residents who would like to ...

13.There's a book called Chronicles from the Future written by a man in 1922 who alleges he went into a coma and his conscience went to the year 3096. The book is his detailed description of the ...

A wildlife snapper has managed to capture stunning images of winter birds in flight – by photographing them through his ...

This tamarack tree has been infested with eastern larch beetles. Black-backed woodpeckers are now prying off flakes of bark ...

The idea is rooted in the belief that woodpeckers stock up on food when harsher conditions are imminent. This behavior is seen as an effort to prepare for when the ground becomes too frozen for ...