June McDaniels sent this photo of a male pileated woodpecker with his red moustache surveying the world from one of his many tree holes in First Landing State Park. McDaniels said she “got a real kick ...

The other day Nancy Nabak and I were walking the Ice Age Trail in preparation for the upcoming Dash at the Dunes run on April 21. While we were measuring the trail, looking at possible muddy areas, ...

A walk in the forest, even an urban forest, sometimes reveals the strange sight of a tree that looks as if it had been bombed. Long shards of broken bark lie scattered around a trunk marked by large, ...

Whenever I’m fortunate enough to see a pileated woodpecker flying high through the treetops, all I can think about is the screwball Woody Woodpecker character of cartoon fame. The extra-large pileated ...

When a friend recently asked me to write an article on the Pileated Woodpecker I checked my records and discovered I hadn’t written any articles on our various woodpecker species. I repent of this ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING — Birder/photographer Ron Dexter has made sure improvements to his property in the foothills of Mount Spokane haven’t spoiled the neighborhood for some of his most colorful neighbors ...

Pileated woodpeckers are an iconic woodpecker, Woody the Woodpecker made flesh; they are crow-sized with striking black and white markings, both male and female bear a flashy red crest. Large and ...

The pileated woodpecker, a crow-sized black bird with white stripes and a flaming red crest, is returning to the western Chicago suburbs with help from an unlikely source: the emerald ash borer.