Songbirds fill the air with wondrous melodies, while woodpeckers fill the air with rhythmic drumbeats. A woodpecker’s drumming is like a songbird’s singing, and both sounds are essential to springtime ...

On a cold, mid-March morning, I heard a sign of spring echo across the frigid suburban landscape: a lone woodpecker drumming on a tree. The rapid succession of persistent, rhythmic tapping continued ...

Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from Arkansas of possible calls and drumming by one or more ivory-billed woodpeckers. The release will fuel a new round in the ...