Livermore resident Srini Vedam captured the ultimate redhead, otherwise known as the acorn woodpecker. This beautiful bird is ...

Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying for flying insects and gleaning trunks, and they often eat ants (as reflected in the species’ scientific name). Polytypic. Length 9". A boldly patterned ...

Some birds kill their siblings soon after hatching. Other birds spend their whole lives with their siblings and will even ...

If you live in a deserted or rocky district, there will usually be a few woodpeckers living there, too. Acorn woodpeckers, for example, live in rocky oak savannas, while the Gila woodpecker even ...

Woodpeckers make their home on almost every continent. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — from the massive pileated woodpecker to the cute compact downy woodpecker, they’re a family ...

Population Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker. (MPB-24), Volume 24 Walter D. Koenig and Ronald L. Mumme Ever since the acorn woodpecker was observed and described by Spanish ...

Birds spotted along the way included the Mexican jays, acorn woodpeckers and titmouse. This is the trail where everybody hopes for a view of the elusive Elegant Trogon, but February was perhaps ...

This dawn chorus was recorded at Wiley Glade in the southern Mendocino National Forest, about 12 miles northeast of Clear Lake, in early April of 2016. Located at an elevation of 2,280 feet, the site ...

This is the story of a man who loves food and loves the person who makes the food, and whether or not there’s a line between ...

Koenig, Walter D. and Walters, Eric L. 2015. Temporal variability and cooperative breeding: testing the bet-hedging hypothesis in the acorn woodpecker. Proceedings of ...

Acorn woodpeckers in western North America, for example, have extraordinarily complex social lives. They commonly live in cooperative groups, and siblings frequently share mates as well as child ...