Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With its soft, downy feathers and rapid tree tapping, it's simple enough to see how this small woodpecker acquired its common name ...

It’s not magic, it’s just a fact of life. Seven species of woodpecker call Illinois home … the downy woodpecker, the hairy woodpecker, the red-bellied woodpecker, the red-headed woodpecker, the ...

A male downy woodpecker pecks at a suet feeder. Watch for a variety of woodpecker species in the woods and at feeders this week. Did you know there are more than 200 species of woodpeckers in the ...