Downy woodpeckers excavate a small nest cavity, typically in a dead snag well off the ground. The female lays up to eight eggs, which she incubates for about 12 days.

This week’s featured creature, the downy woodpecker, is a bird that is as common in suburban yards as it is in rural areas. Skip to main content. You have permission to ...

Hairy and Eastern downy woodpeckers are most prone to do this during the ... It’s 5:30 a.m. and you’re suddenly woken up by the noise of a woodpecker pecking away on the side your house. ...

Downy Woodpeckers are year-round residents of our area, raising their families in summer as well as spending winters here. When the breeding season arrives, a pair selects a nest site ...

Downy woodpeckers have smaller, less powerful beaks. Sue Pike. Even though it is April now and spring is officially here, the windows on the back of our house look out over a field of snow that ...

As a result, the Downy Woodpeckers in my yard use birdhouses, too. Back in the fall, my wife and I would sit on our back deck and watch a pair of downies settle into the boxes at sunset.

Downy woodpeckers are usually the culprits, maybe partially due to the fact that they're our most abundant woodpecker. It takes a concerted effort to stop them from drilling into your siding, ...

In woodpeckers, the presence of a 'tau' protein is odd because it would seem to suggest that the bird's own body has not evolved to protect itself from a daily routine — chipping a hole into a tree.

GRAND FORKS — Lately, I’ve been watching downy woodpeckers chase each other around. At first, I imagined this might be courtship behavior, but I was disabused of that notion by the the experts ...