Meet the woodpecker with a puzzling moniker and a big appetite for suet. Learn what a red-bellied woodpecker looks like and sounds like.

The red-bellied woodpecker is the familiar zebra-backed woodpecker of eastern woodlands and towns. Monotypic (or up to 4 weakly defined ssp. sometimes recognized). Length 9". All red-bellied ...

The winner for brightest red feathers in a bird go to (drum roll, please) the red-bellied woodpecker. You may be saying “Huh?” but the scarlet red patch on this common feeder bird outshines ...

It was a record year for red-bellied woodpeckers in New Hampshire. That's the word from New Hampshire's birders as the international Christmas Bird Count tradition comes to a close. Overall, bird ...

Red-bellied woodpeckers are also nest robbers, and have been recorded raiding nests of many species of birds, including chickadees, wrens and various warblers. The hapless nestlings are snapped up ...

Seeing streaks of blue wings or a familiar red-bellied bird earlier than normal this year? April Barton, Burlington Free Press. Tue, February 22, 2022 at 3:18 PM UTC. 1 min read.

Through readers' comments and my own observations, I have been tracking with interest the northward movement of the Red-bellied Woodpecker's territory. They have been established for quite some ...

I hear the rolling kwirr-kwirr call of a red-bellied woodpecker outside the bedroom window every morning. I watch the bird hitch up a nearby pine tree, and I hear it tap the bark with its long ...

SOUTH NEWFANE The red-bellied woodpecker is an established Vermont bird, on its way to becoming as common as the many other flatlanders that have moved north to make the state its home. The ...

The underside of the red-bellied woodpecker is tinted with a brownish-pink over a field of buff as the name of the bird implies, but its species’ bright red caps and napes that make them a ...