I am no stranger to Woody Woodpecker. I loved watching old cartoons when I was growing up, and the mischievous bird with the unmistakable laugh was one of the frequent characters on my screen.

Hawks and owls are powerful symbols in the sky. But what about other birds? Well, add woodpeckers to the list. Across cultures and spiritual traditions, woodpeckers have been celebrated as powerful ...

WOODPECKERS have unique habits that place them into a category of avian critters who conduct their life and food gathering abilities in similar fashion. Scientists place them in the family named ...

For reference, the average woodpecker hits its beak against a tree at an estimated 15 miles an hour, 20 times per second, about 12,000 times a day. According to physicists, for the bird, that is the ...

Now to Rockport, Massachusetts, where woodpeckers are wrecking car windows and mirrors. Dealing with the chaos is exhausting residents, and you can just hear it in their voices. DEVIN MOCK: So there's ...

The Ivory Billed Woodpecker is a bird of almost mythical status. It was last seen in 1944, and Wednesday the FWS formally classified it as extinct. (Photo by: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

The U.S. government is ringing the death knell for 23 species of birds, fish and other wildlife, including the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will officially ...